dd to format floppy

[Christopher Cody]

Gentle men/women:
A few years ago when I was messing around with linux I found a 'dd'
command to format my
3 1/2 inch floppies for use on the linux operating system (no dos).
I have spend now over 2 hours looking for the sequence and find only
disk imaging for file to
disk or disk to disk etc.  I know there is a way to format the floppy
and then a way to add
the file system to the disquete but I can't seem to find the information
anywhere.

Thanks for your patience in answering this.
Kindest Regards,
Christopher Cody