RE: formatting fat partitions on alpha

["Bernard Chew, Lai Wan" <Bernard Chew dnvps com>]

If you're using Alphabios as your firmware, one of the options under setup
hard disk allows you to format FAT partitions.  The older ARC bios should
have the same function, I think.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mark Henry [SMTP:MHenry@TransoftNetworks.com]
> Sent:	Friday, September 24, 1999 7:32 AM
> To:	axp-list@redhat.com
> Subject:	formatting fat partitions on alpha
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Wondering if anyone can tell me how to format the small fat partition -
> intended to hold MILO - as fat?  I can't boot to a dos disk - obviously -
> wrong platform - and I can't see the partition in the boot selector menu
> and
> so assumed it wasn't formatted properly.
> 
> In fdisk I have specified the fs type as fat <32M (#4) but just don't know
> how to format it!
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Mark
> 
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