Re: mkdosfs simply exits

[glhenni@cs.sandia.gov (Gary L. Hennigan)]

Glenn Engel <glenne@lsid.hp.com> writes:
| I have built a linux rescue floppy that I am using to do restores of a
| win95 system for a school lab environment.  The floppy is intended to
| be able to reformat the hard drive and re-load a valid setup over the
| network or from a CD.  Here's my problem:
| 
| I got the latest mkdosfs that supports fat32 and compiled it.  It seems
| to work fine on my full-blown linux system but after booting from the
| rescue floppy all it does is silently exit with no action taken.
| 
| Any ideas on how can I figure out why it doesn't work ?  

Yeah, it probably requires a runtime library that you don't have on
your floppy. To find out what libraries it needs do:

ldd mkdosfs

Make sure all of the libraries it lists are on your floppy.

Gary