I need some help please???

[Bob Holtzman]

On 19 Oct 2002, Craig White wrote:

> On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 21:38, Bob Holtzman wrote:
> > 
> > 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. 
> > 
> cli
> mkbootdisk
> man mkbootdisk
> 
> also, look at man mkfs
> 
Yup, that did it. I still wonder why the Gnome Gui tool doesn't work.

Thanks!

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Bob Holtzman
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