To create a large floppy disk under Linux (or LRP), several steps are required. For an example, a 1.68 megabyte disk will be used; others require changing the device file ( /dev/fd0u* ) to the appropriate device file for that disk size.
Format the disk. This creates the basic formatting required for
the disk. Two ways to do this are:fdformat
/dev/fd0u1680 orsuperformat
/dev/fd0u1680
Format the disk for use with MSDOS. This can be accomplished
using one of these sequences: mformat -t 80 -h 2 -s 21
a: mbadblocks a: or mkfs.msdos
/dev/fd0u1680
To use mformat, the tracks (-t),
heads (-h), and sectors (-s)
are needed; they can be read from the table above.
Apply syslinux to the disk to make the large disk bootable:syslinux
-s /dev/fd0u1680