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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!news.dell.com!natinst.com!hrd769.brooks.af.mil!hrd769.brooks.af.mil!not-for-mail From: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: How to format a floppy (not in FAQ)? Date: 23 Aug 1993 15:32:19 -0500 Organization: Armstrong Laboratory, Brooks AFB, TX Lines: 29 Message-ID: <25b9h1$c4@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> References: <1993Aug23.173158.12826@news.weeg.uiowa.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hrd769.brooks.af.mil In article <1993Aug23.173158.12826@news.weeg.uiowa.edu> jdb@erato.iowa-city.ia.us writes: >So, I looked in the FAQ and there's a section entitled "How to format >a floppy," but it is blank! Does this mean it's impossible? Or is it >something that only wizards are allowed to do? > > Yup, there sure is. Does it mean that it is impossible? No. Does it mean I don't have the first CLUE how to do it? Yes. Wizards? Probably not. There was a rather heated exchange about this maybe six months ago. The jist of it was that there was a program for formatting floppies, and the author could do it, but the author thought the requestor was really rude... You get the idea, I hope. With any luck at all, someone that DOES have a clue will quietly write up a short article for inclusion in the FAQ and that step will then be updated. (HINT!!) -- ------ TSgt Dave Burgess NCOIC AL/Management Information Systems Office Brooks AFB, TX