floppy disk formatting: how to?

[Aldo Foot]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Hiisi <very-cool at rambler.ru> wrote:
> 2009/9/23 Mikkel <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com>:
>> man floppy
>> or
>> pinfo floppy
>>
>> You can create the /etc/floppy file by running, as root this
>> command: floppy --createrc > /etc/floppy
>
> Done that.
>
>>
>> You should then be able to run something like:
>> floppy --format A:
>
> Whenever I'm trying the command above I have:
> floppy --ext2 --format A:
> floppy 0.16 Copyright 2001-2006, Double Precision, Inc.
>
> /dev/fd0H1440: Tiedostoa tai hakemistoa ei ole
> No formattable capacities for /dev/fd0
>
>
> The penult line means 'The file or directory not found'.
> What's wrong with it?
>
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do this command.
     $ floppy --capacity A:
To show the available format capacities of the floppy drive and post back.

~af