I have a massive stack of old PC disks to test and an A500 with only one floppy drive, and I would like to set it up so that I don't have to insert the Workbench 1.3 disk every time I want to format a disk.
I've tried making the command resident, but it gives me an error, and I've tried putting format in the ram disk, but it still asks for the disk, even though the ram disk is in the system path.
I don't know what else to try.
You can run format from the Shell as other people have already outlined. Copy the format program to ram: and in the shell window enter
ram:format drive df0: name empty99
Or, if you want to use the Initialize option from the Workbench menu, enter these commands in a shell window:
makedir ram:system
copy sys:system/format ram:system
assign sys: ram:
After that you can remove the Workbench floppy disk and don't need it again.
