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SLS's a2-disk - DOS-formatted or raw-formatted??

Post by Yotam Medi » Sat, 14 Aug 1993 15:05:15



I am confused. I don't know if for the SLS installation I need to have
disk-a2 raw-formatted (as disk-a1) or DOS-formatted.
Currently, I have it DOS-formatted having the following:

   BIN4     TGZ    161664 07-25-93   2:47a
   DISKA2             896 07-25-93   2:47a
   DOSEMU   TGZ    157568 07-25-93   2:53a
   FAQ      TAR     92160 07-25-93   2:57a
   IMAGE    TGZ    257280 07-25-93   3:06a
   LILO     TGZ     63360 07-25-93   3:08a
   SC       TGZ     90880 07-25-93   3:12a
   SHLIBS   TGZ    125184 07-25-93   3:16a
   TERM107  TGZ    131968 07-25-93   3:21a
           9 file(s)    1080960 bytes
                         131584 bytes free

.. but it failed to satistfy the 'doinstall' procedure.

In the -  "Answers to FAQ about Linux" -FAQ- Version 1.18 - it says

on 5.2.1 (page 27):
  "The Softlanding Linux System Release ......
   The first disk must be "rawri*" (using rawrite.exe) on the floppy
   and the rest of the images are put onto DOS format floppies."
and on page 29:
   "The files in the a2,a3 and a4 directories. These must be copied to
   MS-DOS formatted floppies."

B U T  in 5.2.5 (page 31):
  "For the SLS release, ......
   You need the README's there. Basically, you use rawrite to copy
   thae a1 and a2 images onto floppies.

          ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?
          W h a t   i s  t h e   r i g h t   a n s w e r
          ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?  ?


Many thanks! yotam

 
 
 
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1. can't format a dos-formatted floppy disk

: Does anybody know ,how to format a DOS-formatted 3.5 inches 1.44M floppy
: diskette
: I have runned such command(as root) in REDHAT 6.0:
: # fdformat /dev/fd0H1440
: But got "CRC error ........" ,why ?

Here's a shellscript I wrote (it's an ugly hack, but it does the job)
a few years ago to to both a Low-Level format and then to put a DOS
filesystem on a diskette. If you save the script as "dosformat" you
would then invoke it as:

        dosformat /dev/fd0H1440

or whatever the device is you're formatting. it assumes you've got
mkdosfs on your system (it came with mine).

Fred
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/sh

# low-level format a diskette and write a validated DOS filesystem on it.

fdformat -n $1
if [ $? = 0 ]
        then
#echo open drive, close it, press ENTER...
#read kb
        /sbin/mkdosfs -vc $1
else
        echo Format failed!
fi

echo
echo done...
echo format another?
read kb
case $kb in
        y|Y)
                exec $0 $*
                ;;
        *)
                ;;
esac
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

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