Thank you very very much for the immense support you've given me throughout this thread. I've learned a lot from you since I started this thread . I understand what I should do and how I should proceed. Thanks you very much sir.
I've tried the HexDump Command you gave me on my Virtual MS-DOS(FAT-16) Floppy Drive & as follows :
Your virtual floppy disk, like any floppy disk, is FAT12, not FAT16. Look closely at your dump:
To make a FAT16 partition you might want to use the instructions I gave you on a blank file of a couple megabytes in size.
You don't need to use the loop device for anything but mounting the partition (something you intend to avoid doing anyway). As far as mkfs.msdos, read(), and write() are concerned they act the same.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
disktype
DISKTYPE(1) BSD General Commands Manual DISKTYPE(1)NAME
disktype -- disk format detector
SYNOPSIS
disktype file...
DESCRIPTION
The purpose of disktype is to detect the content format of a disk or disk image. It knows about common file systems, partition tables, and
boot codes.
USAGE
disktype can be run with any number of regular files or device special files as arguments. They will be analyzed in the order given, and the
results printed to standard output. There are no switches in this version. Note that running disktype on device files like your hard disk
will likely require root rights.
See the online documentation at <http://disktype.sourceforge.net/doc/> for some example command lines.
RECOGNIZED FORMATS
The following formats are recognized by this version of disktype.
File systems:
FAT12/FAT16/FAT32, NTFS, HPFS, MFS, HFS, HFS Plus, ISO9660, ext2/ext3, Minix, ReiserFS, Reiser4, Linux romfs, Linux cramfs, Linux
squashfs, UFS (some variations), SysV FS (some variations), JFS, XFS, Amiga FS/FFS, BeOS BFS, QNX4 FS, UDF, 3DO CD-ROM file system,
Veritas VxFS, Xbox DVD file system.
Partitioning:
DOS/PC style, Apple, Amiga "Rigid Disk", ATARI ST (AHDI3), BSD disklabel, Linux RAID physical disks, Linux LVM1 physical volumes, Linux
LVM2 physical volumes, Solaris x86 disklabel (vtoc), Solaris SPARC disklabel.
Other structures:
Debian split floppy header, Linux swap.
Disk images:
Raw CD image (.bin), Virtual PC hard disk image, Apple UDIF disk image (limited).
Boot codes:
LILO, GRUB, SYSLINUX, ISOLINUX, Linux kernel, FreeBSD loader, Sega Dreamcast (?).
Compression formats:
gzip, compress, bzip2.
Archive formats:
tar, cpio, bar, dump/restore.
Compressed files (gzip, compress, bzip2 formats) will also have their contents analyzed using transparent decompression. The appropriate com-
pression program must be installed on the system, i.e. gzip(1) for the gzip and compress formats, bzip2(1) for the bzip2 format.
Disk images in general will also have their contents analyzed using the proper mapping, with the exception of the Apple UDIF format.
See the online documentation at <http://disktype.sourceforge.net/doc/> for more details on the supported formats and their quirks.
HOMEPAGE
http://disktype.sourceforge.net/
AUTHOR
Christoph Pfisterer <chrisp@users.sourceforge.net>
SEE ALSO file(1), gpart(8)
Feb 21, 2005