Hi Charles, Your advice noted with tks. B.R. SL > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 11:11:31PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > > Hi Aaron, > > > > Sorry I left out the command in my previous posting. > > > > $ fdformat /dev/fd0 > > try (as root, generally): > > fdformat /dev/fd0<dev> > > where <dev> indicates the capacity of device you want. E.g for a 1.44 > MB floppy, /dev/fd0u1440 > > The rationale is that your generic device may be set to some > different, higher capacity, hence geometry. In that case, of course > the verification will fail. > > And remember that after you format the floppy, you must then lay down > a file system. > > mkX /dev/fd0u1440 > > where X is the file system you want, e2fs, dosfs, etc. > > -- > > Charles Curley -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
