The Best Linux Sites | Linux Book Reviews | A Windows Vendetta?ĭiary of a Linux Newbie | Diary of an Open Source NewbieĤ. Homepage | The Last 5 Days | The Daily Linux News | The Linux Bits | Newbie's Linux Manual Notice how the Zip disk now uses partition 1 instead of partition 4, since that's what you allocated in fdisk. To format a Linux-formatted (ext2) Zip disk, enter:

If, however, you want a floppy you can mount, format does. Linux has the required tools built right in, and cheap, compatible USB floppy disk drives are ubiquitous. W (write table to disk and exit) Now You Can Format the Zip Disk If you want to do something unusual, format can handle all the odd disk formats too see the man page. Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-32, default 32): 32 * Remembering to change hdc to your Zip drive's setup. Logged into a normal user account, insert a Zip disk and enter: From then on, it's simply a case of issuing the mke2fs command every time you want that disk formatted. Linux will read/write a floppy formatted in FAT with no problems, but Windows will be able to do neither with an ext2 formatted disk. Coyote Linux is a single floppy distribution of Linux that is derived from. Recovery Is Possible (RIP) is a floppy boot/rescue/backup system.

Quoted from his site: tomsrtbt is Tom's bootable linux-based distribution that will fit on a floppy. Before you can format a Zip disk in Linux you first need to run it through the Linux fdisk program. It includes several very minimal linux distros that fit on a floppy.

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