format fat32

[Cyber Source]

that was just a typo on my part, i am doing it to hda1
On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 14:02, deadpoint wrote:
> mkdosfs -F32 /dev/hda is not formatting the partition but the whole 
> drive. you'll have to do something like mkdosfs -F32 /dev/hda1.
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> >Can anyone tell me the correct way to successfully format a fat32
> >partition in Linux? I have a drive, 80GB which my dos disks won't
> >recognize correctly and I am making a dual boot with windows/Linux. The
> >windows part limits to 32GB or wants to format in ntfs, and we cant have
> >that!
> >I can make the partition easy enough in Linux and I assign the boot
> >flag. I then format with the command "mkdosfs -F32 /dev/hda" and it says
> >it formats OK. I then install windows and it installs but then when it
> >reboots, it fails. I know I am doing something wrong in the formatting
> >because this has happened before and my work around then was to hook up
> >the 80GB as a slave to a windows box and then format it from within
> >windows, then I installed and everything was ok. Am I doing the mkdosfs
> >command correctly? 
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