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From: Gregory Nowak <gnowak1@uic.edu>
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Geoff wrote:

urrr.  If you mean, can you use linux to make your dos partition, then I
> think the answer is yes.  That is to say, yes, but I'm not sure what you'd
> use to format it.

How about mkfs.msdos?
like: "mkfs.msdos /dev/hda2"
Greg