On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 05:02:42PM -0300, Adam Southerland wrote: > Why is it that if I run 'mke2fs /dev/fd0' my system hangs for a few minutes > then tells me: > /dev/fd0: Input/output error Mke2fs only puts an ext2 filesystem on the floppy disk. It doesn't do a low-level format of the floppy disk. In order to do this, use the fdformat program. - Ted