Using Kfloppy
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Chapter 2. Using Kfloppy

Starting Kfloppy opens a single window by which the user may choose appropriate settings and control the formatting process. These options and controls are detailed below.

Important

Make sure that your floppy is not mounted. Kfloppy cannot format a mounted floppy.

Control Settings

The settings are chosen by means of three drop down boxes located at the top left center of Kfloppy.

Floppy Drive

Clicking on the top drop down box, which is labeled Floppy drive:floppy>, offers the user the following four choices:

  • 3.5" 1.44MB

  • 3.5" 720KB

  • 5.25" 1.2MB

  • 5.25" 360KB

Note

The 800k disk format used by Mac® floppy drives cannot be supported on PC floppy drives since they are not capable of formatting disks in that fashion.

File Systems

The third drop down box, labeled File System, offers the user the following choices, if they are applicable:

Dos

This selection will have Kfloppy place the MS-DOS/Windows® type of file system on the diskette. The user will most likely want to choose this system if she or he will be using the diskette with those operating systems as they do not recognize other system types.

ext2

This selection will have Kfloppy place the type of file system on the diskette which is most commonly used with Linux. The user will likely want to choose this system if he or she will only be using the floppy with Linux®.

UFS

This selection will have Kfloppy place the type of file system on the diskette which is most commonly used with FreeBSD. The user will likely want to choose this system if he or she will only be using the floppy with FreeBSD.

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