Re: gfloppy: Could not determine current format type

[Toralf Lund <toralf kscanners com>]

> > Why do I get this error message? Surely, this information is not needed
> > to format a floppy from scratch (I'm _not_ using "Quick format").
> > --
> > [indonesia:~] (0)% rpm -qf /usr/bin/gfloppy
> > gnome-utils-1.2.0-0_helix_1
> > --
>
> You are asking (-q query) to the RPM database (rpm command) which
> package owns the program (f file) /usr/bin/gfloppy. And it correctly
> says that gnome-utils-1.2.0-0_helix_1. There is nothing wrong. :]
> Maybe you need hollidays. ;P
>
> If you invoke gfloppy and click in the widgets you will format the
> floppy without problems. If you want to format a floppy without
> graphical interface, then use mkfs.msdos (or any other of the mkfs
> family, like mkfs.ext2). IIRC it is also named mkdosfs (all this based
> in a RH system). gfloppy also has a --device= parameter, but I never
> tested it... well, I never use gfloppy.

I may be stupid, but I'm not THAT stupid. Of course I'm invoking gfloppy,
which gives me the error message indicated in the _subject_ of my message.
I merely included the rpm command to indicate what version I have installed.
Was it really that hard to understand?

- Toralf