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Posted: Dec. 01 2005,01:11 QUOTE
I deleted the partion windows was on because it was NTFS and I have read that NTFS doesnt work and that you have to have FAT. So I have a partion thats in raw format and dont have a clue how to format it. Is it possible to format it with DSL or do I need some special program that hopfully I can get on a floppy?
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Posted: Dec. 01 2005,13:04 QUOTE
You should be able to boot into DSL using the CD.  Then open a Xterminal and run your formatting command.  I think that mke2fs is most commonly used.  Not sure about using a FAT partition for DSL, so can't comment.
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Posted: Dec. 01 2005,18:07 QUOTE
Get the dosfstools extension from the mydsl repository.

You can use it to format FAT or FAT32 data partitions.

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/mkfs.vfat.8.html
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