[pocket-linux] Chapter 2.3.1 - mke2fs error

[David Horton]

I'm not sure what the cause of the error is, but I have a possible work-around
for you.  Try downloading the ch2-bootdisk.image file from
http://www.happy-monkey.net/pocket/diskette-images/  You should be able to copy
this image straight to the diskette using dd if=ch2-bootdisk.image of=/dev/fd0
and not need to create the filesystem first.  Hope that helps.


On Wed Aug 20 10:20 , 'Matthew Ozor' <matthew.ozor at gmail.com> sent:

>I receive an error when trying to prepare the boot disk media.  I am using
pre-formatted disks and have first did the "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k
>count=1440" command to erase them. After I run the "mke2fs −m0 /dev/fd0" command
it returns this error: 
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>mke2fs 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
>mkfs.ext2: invalid blocks count - /dev/fdo
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>Any ideas or suggestions would be welcomed. I am currently using Debian Etch.
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>Thank you,
>Matthew Ozor
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