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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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.
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Quoted 6 lines · 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.
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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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Quoted 10 lines · 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.
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In modern distros, I believe that superformat has superseded fdformat for formatting both regular and high-density floppies.
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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..
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Quoted 10 lines · 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.
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:
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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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