Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 18 Sep 2000 11:00:50 +0200 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: partions on floppy |
| |
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 01:24:58AM -0500, Adam wrote: > > Ok, I made a parition on floppy, now do I access it? > > Command (m for help): p > > Disk /dev/fd0: 2 heads, 18 sectors, 80 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 36 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/fd0p1 1 80 1431 83 Linux > > I did > mknod /dev/fd0p1 b 2 1 > > However, neither 'mkswap' nor 'mke2fs' seems to work on '/dev/fd0p1'
Say "ls -l /dev/fd*" and "man 4 fd" to see what current minors exist and how they behave. (The minor is used to select size and density, not partition.)
Andries - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
|  |