Well, I am learning... and formating floppies is one thing I am working on ... (oops, excuse that preposition at the end of a sentence) :) Here is what I got from the shell command (a little humor and an unuseable command) winstephen@linux:~> format /dev/floppy Error: The DOS concept of formatting disk media is screwed. If you want to create a filesystem use "mkfs". To format a floppy, use "fdformat /dev/fd0" and then "mkfs.minix /dev/fd0". winstephen@linux:~> fdformat /dev/fd0 | mkfs.minix /dev/fd0 bash: mkfs.minix: command not found winstephen@linux:~> fdformat /dev/fd0 Double-sided, 80 tracks, 18 sec/track. Total capacity 1440 kB. Formatting ... When I tried to do the mkfs.minix .dev.fd0 as a stand alone I got the same error message: command not found... and the shell told me to do it. What is happening? What did I do wrong? Thanks ===== Stephen W Sarasota, FL "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine ..." Proverbs __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover