On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 20:45, Bob Holtzman wrote:
> On 19 Oct 2002, Craig White wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 21:38, Bob Holtzman wrote:
> > > 
> > > I currently have this problem with an ordinary floppy drive that 
> > > /etc/fstab lists as /dev/fd0, only in my case the GUI format tool seems to 
> > > work (at least thats what /etc/mtab says), but when I use the Gui tool to 
> > > create a boot disk I get a blank vfat disk or a lost+found directory on an 
> > > ext2 disk. I haven't tried to create the boot disk from the CLI yet but 
> > > will when I get some time. I have never had occasion to use a floppy for 
> > > anything but a boot disk so I can't say it won't work for other 
> > > applications. BTW, this is on a RH7.3 box. 
> > > 
> > cli
> > mkbootdisk
> > man mkbootdisk
> > 
> > also, look at man mkfs
> > 
> Yup, that did it. I still wonder why the Gnome Gui tool doesn't work.
> 
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offhand guess...permissions - we forget about these things when we open
a terminal and su to root.

Craig