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Old 06 November 2003, 04:00 PM
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Have to create a driver floppy for Linux and only have a load of Windows-formatted floppy disks. Anyone know how i can format them as ext2 type with a Windows system as i havent yet got a Linux server I can use to format them !!

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Old 06 November 2003, 04:53 PM
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A linux box should be able to read fat floppies ?

Old 06 November 2003, 05:14 PM
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Trying to add drivers at install time and it wont read the Windows FAT floppy
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Explore2fs?
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fdformat /dev/fd0 ; mke2fs /dev/fd0

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