Re: problem creating boot floppy
I tried superformat, but it bombed out with the following messages:
sh: mformat: command not found
warning: mformat error
Am I missing a package?
John Kiff
--- Oki DZ <okidz@pindad.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, John Kiff wrote:
>
> > I'm pretty sure that I'm doing everything correctly, but I keep getting
> > back a bad disk or write-protected disk error.
>
> Make sure that you don't have any floppy with bad sectors. You can format
> the floppies on a running Linux machine using fdformat (fdformat
> /dev/fd0u1440) or superformat (superformat /dev/fd0); on fdformat, "done"
> has to be returned; on superformat, you can see every track that's being
> formatted.
>
> > I'
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