From: alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk (Anthony Lovell) Subject: Re: More install questions Date: 26 Dec 1992 14:24:27 GMT
In article <1992Dec25.205004.28379@nwnexus.WA.COM> danubius@halcyon.com writes:
>As I am struggling through Werner's fancy-looking Tex document on LILO
>Version 0.7, I have encountered the following instruction in Section 7.1
>(pg. 32):
>
>"The next step is to test LILO with the boot sector on a floppy disk:
>
> o insert a blank (but low-level formatted) floppy disk into /dev/fd0."
>
>Just WHAT IS A LOW-LEVEL FORMATTED FLOPPY in Linux parlance?
>
Stick a blank high density disk in what would be your dos a: drive
and try fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 that will format the disk but not create
a file system on it
--anthony
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