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Hi Michael, |
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on Monday, 2005-08-29 at 16:51:54, you wrote: |
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> Using fdisk to check the partition table of a FAT floppy gave me this output: |
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> [gibberish] |
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That's because fdisk tries to interpret the data it finds as a partition |
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table, but actually there is none. Floppies aren't supposed to be |
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partitioned, although for the sake of doing it you could under Linux. |
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Just use mtools as the others have suggested, or simply "mkfs.msdos |
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/dev/fdX". |
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Regards |
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Matthias |
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