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

[terry]

Wayne Dahl wrote:
> 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?
> 

try:
/sbin/mke2fs

If that works then
PATH=$PATH: /sbin

should make
mk2fs /dev/x
work