:confused: I am completely new to Linux and although I have been able to nut out most of what I need to do I cannot score with formatting. I am using Mandrake 9. The system is the exclusive owner of my primary hard drive. I have Xp on the slave and I use a HD docking unit to interchange with a second primary drive which contains ME and my dual boot. At this time I am content to use Linux exclusively and forget about XP.
When I first boot into Linux I can use the K menu utility to format the floppies with no problems, I can even use the terminal to format them using a command line but the minute I access the floppy using the file manager to make a test directory or text file the format utility will no longer allow me to format the floppy. I get a message 'Device or Resource Busy'. Or tonight I got this one: 'Cannot create a filesystem on:/dev/fd0u1440mke2fs: Device or resource busy while trying to determine filesystem size'.
Stumped I am... can anyone offer any suggestions?
When I first boot into Linux I can use the K menu utility to format the floppies with no problems, I can even use the terminal to format them using a command line but the minute I access the floppy using the file manager to make a test directory or text file the format utility will no longer allow me to format the floppy. I get a message 'Device or Resource Busy'. Or tonight I got this one: 'Cannot create a filesystem on:/dev/fd0u1440mke2fs: Device or resource busy while trying to determine filesystem size'.
Stumped I am... can anyone offer any suggestions?
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