[NTLUG:Discuss] Formatting a floppy with ext3, also using Linksys LNE100TX Fast Ethernet Adapter(LNE100TX v4) with Smoothwall

[Wayne Dahl]

On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 13:44, Chris Cox wrote:

> Not sure if related, but there simply isn't enough room for a
> journaled filesystem on a floppy.  If you can get just a plain
> ext2 to work, use that.

Ok, I tried 

mke2fs -t ext2 /dev/fd0

I get the same error.  I tried

mke2fs -t ext2 /dev/fd0 b=1 count=1440 (per some website I found), same
error.

This is turning out to be a much bigger pain the butt than it's worth. I
suspect the reason Smoothwall doesn't support Linksys is that it comes
out of Germany and I suppose they don't have Linksys NIC's available
there.  The directions on the Linksys driver disk are pretty
straightforward...if I can only get the damn Smoothwall box to read the
frickin disk!

BTW, any ideas why my RH8 box couldn't seem to find mkfs or mke2fs from
a bash shell, even though they're both located in /sbin?

Wayne