[lug] floppy drive

[LittleViggy at alum.manhattan.edu]

I just wanted to add that this will "format" the floppy disk in the ext2 
format, i.e. unreadable in Windows.

If I remember correctly (it's been a while since I played with floppy disks 
under *nix), during the install of Slakware, you have the option of installing 
"MSDOS Floppy tools".  This installs a set of tools to format the floppy in DOS 
format, and a couple of other things (I think there are commands to make 
directories, etc. too).

Also, if you want to mount a DOS/WIndows floppy, you need to have the VFAT 
driver compiled into the kernal (or as a module) and might have to:

mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /floppy

Viggy

> 
> Under Linux the act of formating a disk is called "creating a filesystem".
> The command to do this is "mkfs" so I'd suggest looking at the man page
> for this.  Type "man mkfs".  This is complicated by the fact that one has
> a choice of which file system to use.  However, to keep this relatively
> short I'm not going to cover that.  For comparison purposes, keep in mind
> that MSWindows really only has the one file system so the choice has
> already been made for you.
> 
> So to summarize you'd first become the root user in order to use the file
> system commands.  Plug a floppy into the drive, and format it by typing:
> 
>    mkfs /dev/fd0
> 
> you would then mount the drive to the floppy directory by typing:
> 
>    mount /dev/fd0
/floppy

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