Re: gfloppy

[John P Verel <jverel optonline net>]

Sam,

I'm afraid I can't help much further.  Here's the capibilities in my Red
Hat stock version of gnome-utils:

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Name        : gnome-utils                  Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version     : 1.4.0                             Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release     : 9                             Build Date: Mon 15 Apr 2002 10:42:58 PM EDT
Install date: Wed 15 May 2002 03:40:09 PM EDT      Build Host: stripples.devel.redhat.com
Group       : Applications/System           Source RPM: gnome-utils-1.4.0-9.src.rpm
Size        : 3613820                          License: GPL
Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
URL         : http://www.gnome.org
Summary     : GNOME utility programs.
Description :
GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of
GUI applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a
window manager for the X Window System. The gnome-utils package
includes a set of utilities for GNOME, including Gcalc, Gdialog,
Gdiskfree, and many others.

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Preumably, you could find this rpm or sources easily and go from there.

John

On 05/31/02, 06:20:44PM +0200, Sam Halliday wrote:
> > There is a dialog box on my version, from gnome-utils-1.4.0-9,  which
> > will allow one to make a Dos (FAT) file system.  Also, the help button
> > in gfloppy brings up the gfloppy users manual.
> i don't have any such dialog box, i am running verison
> gnome-utils-1.4.1.2 on LFS, the file system type is faded out so that it
> lets you know that you can't change it... what program does it search
> for? and what compile time options does it need? ext2 format runs fine
> from glfoppy, and i have
> mkdosfs
> mke2fs
> mkfs.ext2
> mkfs.msdos
> mkfs.vfat
> in /sbin with permissions set to allow any user to use them. i can
> format a floppy with vfat from the command line
> 
> cheers
> Sam

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John P. Verel
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