floppies

Since I started to use html and CSS to create my presentations (instead of OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Office), even quite large presentations fit on regular 1.4MB floppies. Thus I popped an empty floppy into the drive and formatted it as ext2. Funnily the GUI floppy mounter is not able to recognise the file system when it is set to autodetect. Thus I formatted as MS-DOS and the autodetect file system works. Strange...

FORMATING
1. Put floppy in drive, do not mount it.
2. fdformat /dev/fd0

OR: Use "System Tools -> Floppy Formatter " in RedHat 9

DUPLICATING
1. Put source floppy into floppy drive
2. Mount it if it doesn't automount.
3. dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/floppy bs=1024 count=1440
4. Eject floppy, put destination floppy in
5. dd if=/tmp/floppy of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 count=1440