v7.04

[Ari Torhamo]

On la, 2007-09-22 at 15:06 -0500, Dave Sperbeck wrote:
> How do you go about doing a simple format of a floppy diskette? There 
> doesn't appear to be a selection to do that. I see that there are ways 
> to do that from the command line however it should be able to be done 
> from within Gnome graphical desktop. Please do not respond with simple 
> solutions as to select it from Gnome as it does not exist, even though 
> the install says it is included.


The tool for formatting floppies in Gnome is called Gfloppy. You can
start it from the command line simply by giving the command "gfloppy".
You should be able to start it by going to Places -> Computer, right
clicking the floppy drive icon and selecting "Format". If this menu item
isn't available, as it seems to be in your case, then something has gone
wrong with your installation (assuming that you have a floppy drive
connected into your PC :-) 

You may have a look if you have the package gnome-utils installed.
Gfloppy is a part of it. If the package is installed, you might try to
re-install it and see if the "Format" menu item appears then.


Regards,

Ari Torhamo