Easiest way would be to try "mformat a:" (yes, that is the actual
command), I'm not sure if it's part of the basic utilities set or not,
but it's about as simple as you can get regarding FAT floppies.

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Wade Brown

On 8/29/05, Michael Kintzios <michaelkintzios@...> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Using fdisk to check the partition table of a FAT floppy gave me this output:
> ===================
> # fdisk /dev/fd0
> 
> Command (m for help): p
> 
> Disk /dev/fd0: 0 MB, 737280 bytes
> 2 heads, 9 sectors/track, 80 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 18 * 512 = 9216 bytes
> 
>     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/fd0p1   ?   103864578   194646963   817041466   44  Unknown
> Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
>      phys=(10, 0, 13) logical=(103864577, 1, 6)
> Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
>      phys=(363, 105, 51) logical=(194646962, 1, 7)
> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> /dev/fd0p2   ?    61797750    91741548   269494180+  65  Novell Netware 386
> Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
>      phys=(370, 108, 53) logical=(61797749, 1, 7)
> Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
>      phys=(0, 13, 10) logical=(91741547, 1, 3)
> Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> /dev/fd0p3   ?    62565495    62566594        9895+  42  SFS
> Partition 3 has dirderfferent physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
>      phys=(329, 79, 13) logical=(62565494, 0, 8)
> Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
>      phys=(335, 77, 4) logical=(62566593, 1, 7)
> Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> 
> Partition table entries are not in disk order
> ===================
> 
> What's the appropriate way to format a floppy with FAT using Linux, so that it can be used in M$Windoze without the need of a native re-formatting?
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
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