From: Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Need fdformat from Slackware 3.5
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 18:22:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20021203181554.020faec0@celine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200212040027.RAA04650@cu.imt.net>
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In modern distros, I believe that superformat has superseded fdformat for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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Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, California, USA ray@comarre.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-04 2:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-04 0:26 Need fdformat from Slackware 3.5 Jerry James Haumberger
2002-12-04 0:43 ` Jim Reimer
2002-12-04 2:22 ` Ray Olszewski [this message]
2002-12-04 14:42 ` Hal MacArgle
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2002-12-04 17:44 Jerry James Haumberger
2002-12-05 7:33 caszonyi
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