Re: Results with 2.2.15-2000-06-10
On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 04:14:34PM +0100, Peter Haworth wrote:
> Ben Collins wrote:
> > > I realise that. What I want to do is create a DOS filesystem on a floppy,
> > > not ext2, so I can use it in my sneakernet. I suppose I could format
> > > once on DOS/Windows, then use dd to create an initialised filesystem
> > > image, which I could dd onto new floppies, but that seems like cheating
> > > somehow.
> >
> > Superformat wouldn't help you with that anyway. Just use the programs in
> > the mtools package.
>
> Thank you. That works fine. Now I just need to figure out why I can't eject the
> disk...
>
> $ eject -f /dev/fd0
> eject: unable to find or open device for: `/dev/fd0'
>
> This is with kernel 2.2.17-pre6, compiled from the debian package. I did get
> the same error after superformat caused an oops, but this is a clean boot this
> morning, and I haven't tried superformat today.
>
Try simply "eject fd0".
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