Re: ide-floppy. LS-120
On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 10:35, alberto wrote:
[snip]
> If I try to make a dos filesystem on the floppy,
> # mkdosfs /dev/hdc
> mkdosfs 2.5 (07 Jan 2000)
> mkdosfs: Will not try to make filesystem on '/dev/hdc'
>
> If I try with an ext2 or a tarfile, no problem, it'll do it.
The solution I have used for my usb floppy is very nasty but it works. I
took a blank disk and created an image from it with "dd if=/dev/sda
of=blank_floppy.img" and then to format a new disk I can just "dd
if=blank_floppy.img of=/dev/sda" like I say though, this is ugly and
there is possibly a better way to do it, I just don't know what that is.
I don't know about the booting issue as I've never tried before. Do the
debian boot-floppies work?
-Mark
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