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Greetingz every1,
i have red hat linux 8, i tried formatting a floppy using the floppy formatter option from the system tools. But the floppy cannot b formatted. The error ...
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- 06-21-2004 #1Just Joined!
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how to make a startup disk?
Greetingz every1,
i have red hat linux 8, i tried formatting a floppy using the floppy formatter option from the system tools. But the floppy cannot b formatted. The error was "cant read the first sector(0)". Same error came with many other floppies i tried. Strangely, all these floppies opened and worked properly in Windoze. How can i format them.
My second problem is how to make a startup disk in Red Hat Linux 8. Plz help. Thanx in advance
- 06-25-2004 #2Linux Guru
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quick fix would be to format the disk with windoze (since you said that works fine), then on RH:
-lakerdonaldCode:dd if=/bootdiskpath/bootdisk.img of=/mnt/floppy
- 06-26-2004 #3Linux Guru
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Well, I don't know much about that GUI floppy formatter program, but try if this command works:
As for making a startup disk, I'm not sure if I understand just what you want. What do you intend to do with this startup disk?Code:mkfs.msdos /dev/fd0
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