I've looked at mkdosfs & couldn't figure out how to make a 1.44 vfat floppy.
I've posted LanPuppy & EtherBoot-net, a client PC's PXE boot floppy.
It dawned on me that the floppy maker would be great as a DotPup package.
The DotPup would first format the floppy, & then put the EtherBoot image on it.
Could someone post the complete code to partition the floppy (if that's even needed).
And then make the vfat file system on it with the tools that Puppy 1 has?
How to vfat format a floppy? (SOLVED)
How to vfat format a floppy? (SOLVED)
Last edited by sunburnt on Sun 30 Jul 2006, 07:14, edited 1 time in total.
sunburnt,
it will only format the floppy as dos. if you want it bootable you'd have to copy a freedos image, using dd or cat, to /dev/fd0.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stu ... os1440.img
it will only format the floppy as dos. if you want it bootable you'd have to copy a freedos image, using dd or cat, to /dev/fd0.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stu ... os1440.img
the term vfat applies only to hard drives - floppies are specifically formatted as fat12 due to their small size. drives up to 32 meg ( i think, pardon my laziness not to do the math) are formattable as fat16 (or fat, in common terms). only to accomodate bigger and bigger hard drives did windows ( as in windows 95B !) start using vfat, i.e., fat32. will we ever see fat64? not likely, ms wants us to use ntfs!
vfat
good point, but i am quite sure that win95 came with lfn support from the very beginning - well before vfat/fat32 ( i.e., in win95b!)
but it is just an overlay - you can access all files by the standard 6 letters, then '~', then digit, then '.', then 3-character extension, i.e 8.3 format - readability is the only loss, and 8-3 is the fundamental filename thoughtout win9x
but it is just an overlay - you can access all files by the standard 6 letters, then '~', then digit, then '.', then 3-character extension, i.e 8.3 format - readability is the only loss, and 8-3 is the fundamental filename thoughtout win9x