[pocket-linux] Chapter 2.3.1 - mke2fs error

[Brendan Brewster]

I'm not sure why my previous message came through like that!
This is what I tried to say:

"For a floppy I would definitely try bs=512 and count=2880. That has
never failed for me!"

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Brendan Brewster
<brendan.brewster at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> For a floppy I would definitely try bs=512 and count=2880. That has never failed for me!
>
> 2008/8/20 Jim Adams <scurvydog at mail.com>
>>
>> Hey Matt,  don't know, try using bs=1024
>> might work???
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Matthew Ozor"
>> To: pocket-linux at ufo.chicago.il.us
>> Subject: [pocket-linux] Chapter 2.3.1 - mke2fs error
>> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:20:51 -0400
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> mke2fs 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
>> mkfs.ext2: invalid blocks count - /dev/fdo
>>
>>
>> Any ideas or suggestions would be welcomed. I am currently using Debian Etch.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Matthew Ozor
>>
>>
>>
>>
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