Re: [alice] dos format -for floppys

From: Bjorn Tore Sund (bjornts_at_mi.uib.no)
Date: Wed Oct 10 2001 - 16:10:12 CEST

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Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 16:10:12 +0200 (CEST)
From: Bjorn Tore Sund <bjornts@mi.uib.no>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110101609180.4965-100000@abel.mi.uib.no>
Subject: Re: [alice] dos format -for floppys

On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Donnelly, John wrote:
>
> I don't this doesn't deal exacty with Alice, but using the floppy
> boot method, it requires a 'MS DOS' formatted diskette.
>
> Is there any Linux utilities that do the same thing ? When I
> worked on AIX (from IBM) they had dosdir, doscopy, dosformat , etc ...

The package mtools is your friend. Use 'mformat' to format floppies
in MS-DOS format.

Bjørn

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