Hi there, got no response from the laptop list - so I try again here...
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Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 19:03:50 +0900 (JST)
From: Kai Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
Subject: Floppy on Vaio PCG-Z505F
Hi there,
Just bought a nice SONY Vaio PCG-Z505F (Japanese model) and set out to
install potato from the resc1440tecra.bin floppy disk. Boots fine and
partitions the disk all right, but later no more floppy access seems
possible. The step INSTALL OPERATING SYSTEM KERNEL AND MODULES fails with
a message unable to mount rescue floppy for both, /dev/fd0 and /dev/fd1.
During boot the following messages are dumped to screen:
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is <NULL>, fd1 is 2.88M AMI BIOS
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
The kernel version that I got for this rescue disk on a local mirror is
2.0.36 (gcc version 2.7.2.3). If I try to bypass the kernel installation
step and go directly to the installation of the base system, I get:
/dev/fd[01]: Operation not supported by device
The external floppy drive that came with the laptop is connected to a USB
connector on the box via a special SONY cable...
Any ideas how to cure this or how to work around it? (No more windoze
anywhere on my disk :-) ...
Thanks in advance for your help, cheers, Kai
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Kai Martens State University of New York at Stony Brook
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Kamioka Observatory
456 Higashi-Mozumi e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kamioka-cho FAX: +81-578-5-2121
Yoshiki-gun Tel: +81-578-5-9617
506-1205 Gifu-ken
Japan
homepage: http://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~kai
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