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Re: creating a 1722K floppy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (RHS Linux User)
Wed Nov 13 11:03:12 1996
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 10:58:01 -0500
From: RHS Linux User <pimirag@telerama.lm.com>
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Daniele Carbonetti writes:
> On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, Julien Maillard wrote:
>
> >I know this is a FAQ, but can't remember where to look...
> >could anyone give me some pointers on how to create larger than 1440K
> >floppies? i.e. what device i should use with fdformat? Thanks.
>
> You must create these files in /dev
>
> mknod -m 640 fd0H1722 b 2 60
> mknod -m 640 fd0H1743 b 2 76
> mknod -m 640 fd0H1760 b 2 96
> chown root.floppy fd0*
>
> and now
>
> fdformat /dev/fd0H1760 (or whatever you like)
> mke2fs -m 0 /dev/fd0
> Bye!
Will MAKEFLOPPIES (included with fdutils-4.3) automatically do that?
Incidentally, I have a q. about fdutils: I just compiled the
packages, but do I need to recompile the kernel to make it all work?
thanks,
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