On Monday 05 January 2004 11:01 pm, Jeremy C. Reed said:
~ Make sure the floppy is formatted first. If you want an MS-DOS style disk,
~ then try:
~ fdformat /dev/fd0
~ mkdosfs /dev/fd0 # or "mformat a:" or "mkfs.msdos /dev/fd0" or "mkfs.fat
 ..." ~

Thanks for the help, buddy. The problem I wasa having is that I would just cp 
[file] /dev/fd0. I hope that is what the problem was. After I sent the 
question concerning this problem it occured to me that thisit might be the 
source of my problem. The list then confirmed this and now I just have to see 
if it happens again. (I'm sure it won't). Thanks for letting me know all the 
format commands. I read about the 'mformat a:' but then, after executing the 
command, promptly forgot it. I'll write it down this time. It also creates 
the filesystem, right?
-- 
<:-)~MIKE~(-:>






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