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Re: How do you format a floppy on Linux ?



On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 10:53:43AM +0530, shyamk@eth.net wrote:
> My floppy shows (on Linux) as having a bad FAT partition , and therefore ,
> Linux will not read from the floppy .

    apt-get install fdutils

    superformat /dev/fd0

    Mike

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