Need fdformat from Slackware 3.5

Need fdformat from Slackware 3.5

[Jerry James Haumberger]

Hi, folks --

After installing BasicLinux, I discovered that I needed to add
fdformat to format ext2 on high density 3.5" and 5.25" floppy disks.

Unfortunately, I'm not quite sure where to look for this on the
Slackware 3.5 site (which is what I need for BasicLinux 1.7).

I would greatly appreciate anyone pointing me to the ftp address where
I can download the tar file for fdformat and use pkg to install it.

Thanks!


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Re: Need fdformat from Slackware 3.5

[Jim Reimer]

http://www.ibiblio.org (oops - not ftp)

Click the 'Linux Software' link and then search for fdformat - it's
there
as part of a utilities package.  Don't know if it'll install with pkg,
you may have to use make.

-jdr-

Jerry James Haumberger wrote:
> 
> Hi, folks --
> 
> After installing BasicLinux, I discovered that I needed to add
> fdformat to format ext2 on high density 3.5" and 5.25" floppy disks.
> 
> Unfortunately, I'm not quite sure where to look for this on the
> Slackware 3.5 site (which is what I need for BasicLinux 1.7).
> 
> I would greatly appreciate anyone pointing me to the ftp address where
> I can download the tar file for fdformat and use pkg to install it.
> 
> Thanks!
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Re: Need fdformat from Slackware 3.5

[Ray Olszewski]

At , Jerry James Haumberger wrote:
>Hi, folks --
>
>After installing BasicLinux, I discovered that I needed to add
>fdformat to format ext2 on high density 3.5" and 5.25" floppy disks.
>
>Unfortunately, I'm not quite sure where to look for this on the
>Slackware 3.5 site (which is what I need for BasicLinux 1.7).
>
>I would greatly appreciate anyone pointing me to the ftp address where
>I can download the tar file for fdformat and use pkg to install it.

Go to any Slackware 3.5 mirror site (find one via Google if you need to) 
and look at the Manifest.gz file in the Slakware [sic] directory. You'll 
find all the packages listed with their contents. In your case, you 
probably want one of these:

         fdformat, contained in ./a11/util.tgz
         superformat, contained in ./a1/aaa_base.tgz

In modern distros, I believe that superformat has superseded fdformat for 
formatting both regular and high-density floppies.


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Re: Need fdformat from Slackware 3.5

[Hal MacArgle]

Greetings: This thread very interesting to me so would like to add
something FWIW:

For very quick re-formatting floppies I've been using mformat a:,
thence mdir a:, thence dosfsck -tvr /dev/fd0 - for a scan test..
I tried superformat /dev/fd0 hd - on some of those disks and got a
failure notice.. So can presume that superformat is more thorough
than mformat, at least to me..
Trying superformat then dosfsck -tvr confirms that superformat does,
in fact, put a dos fs on the disk.. Interesting.... We learn
something new every day, eh?  Just a thought..

    Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 8.0   (2.4.13)
	       haltec@iceweb.net | w8mch@iceweb.net
                Proprietary  Formats  Unacceptable
		    NON ILLEGITIMI CARBORUNDUM

On 12-03, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At , Jerry James Haumberger wrote:
> >Hi, folks --
> >
> >After installing BasicLinux, I discovered that I needed to add
> >fdformat to format ext2 on high density 3.5" and 5.25" floppy disks.
> >
> >Unfortunately, I'm not quite sure where to look for this on the
> >Slackware 3.5 site (which is what I need for BasicLinux 1.7).
> >
> >I would greatly appreciate anyone pointing me to the ftp address where
> >I can download the tar file for fdformat and use pkg to install it.
> 
> Go to any Slackware 3.5 mirror site (find one via Google if you need to) 
> and look at the Manifest.gz file in the Slakware [sic] directory. You'll 
> find all the packages listed with their contents. In your case, you 
> probably want one of these:
> 
>          fdformat, contained in ./a11/util.tgz
>          superformat, contained in ./a1/aaa_base.tgz
> 
> In modern distros, I believe that superformat has superseded fdformat for 
> formatting both regular and high-density floppies.
> 
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Need fdformat from Slackware 3.5

[Jerry James Haumberger]

Hal --

It's odd, yes.  At least on the surface.  You would expect (at least
I would, as a relative newcomer to Linux) that formatting floppies
for ext2 use is a process unrelated to DOS -- yet, in order to use
mke2fs on an unformatted floppy (for example), it will work if the
floppy is first formatted from DOS.

Although I could format all my floppies first with DOS and then
prepare them for use with mke2fs under BasicLinux (which doesn't
have the fdformat utility available), I'd prefer to skip the
DOS dependency while using Linux (and save a bit more time) by
having fdformat available.  And since I'm interested in a "minimalist"
distribution of Linux (BasicLinux), I'd prefer to manipulate DOS
files without adding Mtools under such circumstances.

>Trying superformat then dosfsck -tvr confirms that superformat does,
>in fact, put a dos fs on the disk.. Interesting.... We learn
>something new every day, eh?  Just a thought..


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Re: Need fdformat from Slackware 3.5

[caszonyi]

Hi
i think that's what your looking for:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-3.5/slakware//a11/util.tgz


----- Original Message -----
From: Jerry James Haumberger <jerryjh@imt.net>
Date: 	Tue Dec  3 17:26:00 2002
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Need fdformat from Slackware 3.5

Hi, folks --

After installing BasicLinux, I discovered that I needed to add
fdformat to format ext2 on high density 3.5" and 5.25" floppy disks.

Unfortunately, I'm not quite sure where to look for this on the
Slackware 3.5 site (which is what I need for BasicLinux 1.7).

I would greatly appreciate anyone pointing me to the ftp address where
I can download the tar file for fdformat and use pkg to install it.

Thanks!


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