Re: quick Q about dos disketts
xucaen@yahoo.com(xucaen@yahoo.com) is reported to have said:
> Hi all. what do I need to install to be able to format DOS diskettes?
> thanks!
apt-get install fdutils mtools
fdutils
Description: Linux floppy utilities
This package contains utilities for configuring and debugging the Linux
floppy driver, for formatting extra capacity disks (up to 1992K on a high
density disk), for sending raw commands to the floppy controller, for
automatic floppy disk mounting and unmounting, etc.
mtools
Description: Tools for manipulating MSDOS files
Mtools is a collection of utilities to access MS-DOS disks from Unix
without mounting them. It supports Win'95 style long file names,
OS/2 Xdf disks, ZIP/JAZ disks and 2m disks (store up to 1992k on a high
density 3 1/2 disk).
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