From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Wed May 03 2000 - 14:48:59 CEST
On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 09:35:29AM +0200, Stefanie A. Pagel nicely wrote:
>
> > # fdformat /dev/fd0H1722
> > # cat VNC.tgz > /dev/fd0H1722
>
> > (first mount the disk with the VNC image and cd'in )
>
> Whenever I try to format a floppy-disk, system tells me that it is a
> read only file system.
> The flopyy-disk is NOT write-protected. Formatting a floppy-disk with
> DOS is no problem, it seems to be a linux problem only.
You have a big problem with your floppy controller and fdformat.
Can you format a 1440?
# fdfromat /dev/fd0H1440
>
> Any ideas ?
> Everything could be the reason as I'm not sure that I made ^everything
> right during installation process.
>
This is a thinkpad machine?
Michele
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