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  From: Toby Corkindale <tjcorkin@steadycom.com.au>
  To  : Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>
  Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 00:44:13 +0000

Re: Formatting Win95 vfat or DOS partition from Linux

I think mkfs.msdos is what you are looking for?
That'll format, anyway. And there are many fine bootdisks out there that
should include it, or can be easily modified to have tar or ghost or
something.

Toby

Richard Sharpe wrote:
> 
> 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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