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Posted: May 04 2005,08:21 QUOTE
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Posted: May 04 2005,13:15 QUOTE
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.

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Posted: May 04 2005,14:47 QUOTE
If you need to format floppies, maybe consider taking the format command and creating a button or menu item in emelfm?

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Posted: May 04 2005,23:48 QUOTE
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.

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Posted: May 05 2005,02:25 QUOTE
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.
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