Remember, when you format a disk, any existing information contained on the disk is lost. Give the name of the "drive letter" as an argument of the disk to be formatted. To format a floppy disk for DOS, writing an empty MS-DOS filesystem to the disk in the process, use mformat, which is in the mtools package: aptitude install mtools Then format the floppy: mkfs.msdos /dev/fd0 mke2fs /dev/fd0įirst, you will need to install the dosfstools package: aptitude install dosfstools If you want a blank Linux formatted floppy, then you can use the command mke2fs. are we talking 1.4MB disks, or older 800KB or even 400KB floppies) the condition of the floppy disks (specifically, are they now. how the actual floppy disks are formatted (both in terms of file systems and capacity) the type of floppy disks involved (i.e. If you are using the second floppy drive, then just replace /dev/fd0 with /dev/fd1 in these instructions. The short answer is yes, external USB floppy drives will still work with macOS. The first floppy drive in Linux is /dev/fd0 and the second one is /dev/fd1.
In Linux, you can format a floppy disk as a DOS disk or a Linux disk.
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