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- From: jwinstea@jarthur.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.)
- Subject: Re: formatting
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.185423.20305@muddcs.claremont.edu>
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- Organization: Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
- References: <1992Aug12.015419.2738@athena.mit.edu> <1992Aug12.132801.6164@infonode.ingr.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 18:54:23 GMT
- Lines: 35
-
- Here we go again.
-
- In article <1992Aug12.132801.6164@infonode.ingr.com> tracyre@infonode.ingr.com writes:
- >In article <1992Aug12.015419.2738@athena.mit.edu>, hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com (Kevin W. Hammond) writes:
- >|> I'm about to install my first kernel since I converted from DOS to Linux 0.96.
- >|> Under DOS, I remember using rawrite to place the boot image on the floppy.
- >|> How will this be accomplished under Linux? The 0.97 README states that a
- >|> formatted floppy is needed. What program should be used to format the disk?
- >
- >With Linux, if you have a bootimage file which you want to put on a
- >floppy, the floppy doesn't need to be formatted. You can simply
- >execute the command:
- >
- >$ cat bootimage > /dev/PS0
-
- The floppy does need to be at least low-level formatted. You're just
- asking for trouble, otherwise. The proper command to low-level format
- a floppy is:
-
- # fdformat /dev/fd0h1200 /* high density 5.25" */
- # fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 /* high density 3.5" */
-
- >If you want to format a DOS diskette, I believe that you use the
- >mtools command:
- >
- >$ mkdfs -f a: (b:)
-
- To high-level format a floppy in DOS format, the command should be:
-
- # mformat a:
- --
- + Jim Winstead Jr. (CSci '95)
- | Harvey Mudd College
- | jwinstea@jarthur.Claremont.EDU
- + This is all my words. Honest!
-