Re: Formating A USB Floppy

[Antony Stace <antony@example.com>]

still no luck....

[root@example.com dosfs]# mkfs.msdos /dev/sda
mkfs.msdos 2.6 (28 Nov 2000)
mkfs.msdos: Will not try to make filesystem on '/dev/sda'
[root@example.com dosfs]# mkfs.msdos /dev/sda1
mkfs.msdos 2.6 (28 Nov 2000)
mkfs.msdos: Attempting to create a too large file system
[root@example.com dosfs]# mkfs.msdos /dev/sda2
mkfs.msdos 2.6 (28 Nov 2000)
mkfs.msdos: Attempting to create a too large file system
[root@example.com dosfs]# mkfs.msdos /dev/sda3
mkfs.msdos 2.6 (28 Nov 2000)
/dev/sda3: Device not configured
[root@example.com dosfs]# mkfs.msdos /dev/sda4
mkfs.msdos 2.6 (28 Nov 2000)
mkfs.msdos: Attempting to create a too large file system
[root@example.com dosfs]#


B0Ti wrote:
> 
> [root@example.com /]# mkfs.msdos /dev/sda
> mkfs.msdos 2.6 (28 Nov 2000)
> mkfs.msdos: Will not try to make filesystem on '/dev/sda'
> [root@example.com /]# mkfs.msdos /dev/sda4
> mkfs.msdos 2.6 (28 Nov 2000)
> [root@example.com /]#
> 
> B0Ti.
> ps: did you notice the difference?
> 
> Antony Stace wrote:
> 
> > [root@example.com /root]# mkfs.msdos /dev/sda
> > mkfs.msdos 2.2 (06 Jul 1999)
> > mkfs.msdos: Will not try to make filesystem on '/dev/sda'
> > [root@example.com /root]#
> >
> > B0Ti wrote:
> > >
> > > Antony Stace wrote:
> > >
> > > > Can someone please tell me how to format a disk in MSDOS format with a
> > > > USB floppy drive.  I am running Kondara MNU/Linux 2000 which has Kernel
> > > > 2.2.17-10k.
> > > > My computer recoginses the USB floppy as /dev/sda.  I cannot use the
> > > > fdformat
> > > > command since it only works on the devices /dev/fdXX.
> > >
> > > mkfs.msdos ?
> > >
> 
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