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  From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 15:46:19 +0900

Formatting Win95 vfat or DOS partition from Linux

Hi,

for something that I am doing, I need^H^H^H^Hwant to be able to boot linux
on a PC from a floppy, partition a disk, format the first partition as DOS
or VFAT, then copy down a compressed copy of the file system to the partition.

Are there any tools under Linux that will format a partition as VFAT or DOS?

I guess that I could simply dd the partition up under Linux and compress
it, but that means I don't have the flexibility to resize the file system.


Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe@ns.aus.com, NIC-Handle:RJS96
NS Computer Software and Services P/L, 
Ph: +61-8-8281-0063, FAX: +61-8-8250-2080, 
Samba (Team member), Linux, Apache, Digital UNIX, AIX, C, ...
Co-author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours

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