On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Peter Chiocchetti wrote: > Hello! > > Can you tell me a way to format a 3 1/2" DD floppy as 320k? > > Caldera OpenDos won't let me do it; Mtools works, but Linux has > no /dev/fd0D320 - and I am ignorant of those more sophisticated > setfdprm's. Or, can somebody provide an (empty) image-file to > download? > > Yours, Peter > > PS: mknbi does not like both -c and -s 320 switches, am I right? > Hi Peter You could put all the files into a subdir on your linux machine (including ibmbio.com, ibmdos.com and command.com) and then run mknbi-dos -r /whateverdirectory -o /whateveroutputfile I have done it this way, and it works (You just don't get a warning when you go beyond the 320kb limit).... I don't think there should be any problems with supplying -c -s 320, but i'm just a beginner in the field of netbooting... Thomas Mørch licensed ham, with callsign OZ2AFO. License category: CEPT-1 If God had intended man to smoke He would have set him on fire.
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