On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Darren R. Weber wrote:
I am just curious about floppy formatting. I like the KFloppy interface but have found it somewhat unreliable.
hehehe <madness> 1. Go to a windows box, hard-format a floppy. 2. Take the floppy to a Linux/Unix box, and `dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/etc/floppy.img' 3. `gzip /etc/floppy.img' 4. Make a shell script that unzips and dd's from /etc/floppy.img.gz every time you need to format a floppy :) </madness> On alternatives to dd: use `cat'. It does the same thing, but makes it's own buffers. This is in reference to LenZ' recommendation to use `cp'. -- -=|JP|=- Jon Pennington | Atipa Linux Solutions -o) jpennington@atipa.com | http://www.atipa.com /\\ Kansas City, MO, USA | 816-241-2641 _\_V -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/