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Re: How do you format a floppy on Linux ?



Michael P. Soulier(michael.soulier@home.com) is reported to have said:
> 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

Along with superformat you will also need the mformat program which is
in the mtools package.

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