floppy disk formatForum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions Topic: floppy disk format started by: jls legalize Posted by jls legalize on May 04 2005,08:21
thanx
Posted by mikshaw on May 04 2005,13:15
I don't think there's an interactve tool for formatting floppies, so a menu item wouldn't be useable.As always, if I'm wrong someone please correct me. Posted by clivesay on May 04 2005,14:47
If you need to format floppies, maybe consider taking the format command and creating a button or menu item in emelfm?Chris Posted by SaidinUnleashed on May 04 2005,23:48
To make a windows compatible floppy, you will need the dosfstools.dsl.If you are just writing images, use dd. If you just need a linux floppy, mke2fs /dev/fd0u1440 will do the trick. Posted by cbagger01 on May 05 2005,02:25
Keep in mind that you can use ordinary MSDOS/Windows formatted floppy disks with DSL.Linux floppy disk format is an unknown file system if you try and read the files on a DOS/Windows computer system. But linux formatted floppies do store more file property information than a DOS floppy, like the username that is the owner of the file for example. I would guess that after installing dosfstools.dsl you would be able to make a DOS formatted floppy with: mkfs -t msdos /dev/fd0u1440 but I have not tried it myself. Posted by SaidinUnleashed on May 05 2005,02:28
mkdosfs /dev/fd0u1440but yeah. Posted by jls legalize on May 05 2005,10:03
what about fdformat /dev/fd0 |