On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 21:38, Bob Holtzman wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, William Lindley wrote:
> 
> > Good questions.  some half answers:
> > 
> > Floppies other than connected to the archaic floppy port are difficult to
> > use under Linux... all my systems have LS-120 floppy drives (yes, these
> > read and write standard 1.44 floppies) connected to the IDE port; and in
> > several years, I've never been able to get "make boot disk" or "format
> > floppy" to work under any flavor of Linux.  Discouraging.
> > 
> 
> I currently have this problem with an ordinary floppy drive that 
> /etc/fstab lists as /dev/fd0, only in my case the GUI format tool seems to 
> work (at least thats what /etc/mtab says), but when I use the Gui tool to 
> create a boot disk I get a blank vfat disk or a lost+found directory on an 
> ext2 disk. I haven't tried to create the boot disk from the CLI yet but 
> will when I get some time. I have never had occasion to use a floppy for 
> anything but a boot disk so I can't say it won't work for other 
> applications. BTW, this is on a RH7.3 box. 
> 
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cli
mkbootdisk
man mkbootdisk

also, look at man mkfs

Craig