Remember, when you format a disk, any existing information contained on the disk is lost. Replace a: with b: if your floppy drive is the B: drive. To create a bootable diskette, insert a disk in the floppy drive, and, at the C:\> prompt, enter: format a: /s.
Give the name of the "drive letter" as an argument of the disk to be formatted. If you run Windows 95, go to an MS-DOS prompt. To format a floppy disk for DOS, writing an empty MS-DOS filesystem to the disk in the process, use mformat, which is in the mtools package: aptitude install mtools Then format the floppy: mkfs.msdos /dev/fd0 Click here to go on to the Installing Windows for Workgroups 3. Under most circumstances, you should now continue and install Windows for Workgroups 3.11. in DOS, with nothing but the DOS system files on your computer. mke2fs /dev/fd0įirst, you will need to install the dosfstools package: aptitude install dosfstools Remove the floppy disk from the disk drive and press Returntwice to restart the computer. If you want a blank Linux formatted floppy, then you can use the command mke2fs. If you are using the second floppy drive, then just replace /dev/fd0 with /dev/fd1 in these instructions. The first floppy drive in Linux is /dev/fd0 and the second one is /dev/fd1. In Linux, you can format a floppy disk as a DOS disk or a Linux disk.
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