On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 01:31:24PM +0000, Jianan Huang wrote: > 1) I read about disk boot problem in the mail list. Right now I boot > from a floppy. My machine BIOS can only boot from the C drive or the > floppy. I use D drive for my Linux.
"C drive" and "D drive" are DOS/Windows concepts, by the way, although they're often mentioned in BIOSes as well. It would be less confusing if you could get used to Linux-style terms like hda, hda1, etc. Even if your BIOS can only boot from the first hard disk (/dev/hda) or the first partition on the first IDE hard disk (usually "C drive" in DOS-speak, /dev/hda1 here), LILO is quite clever and may be able to work around this. > If my floppy fails to boot, I may have to re-build a whole new system. > It would be wise to have an image copy of the whole floppy as a > backup. Is there a utility to create a binary image of a Linux floppy? > I have looked at fdutils. It doesn't help. Use 'dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/path/to/image bs=1024 count=1440' to create the image and 'dd if=/path/to/image of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 count=1440' to write it back. (I think the count of 1440 is right for a 1.44Mb floppy, but adjust to taste.) > 2) I have read about Linux BIOS. I believe BIOS is another area of > software that has to open up. Does Debian have one, and come with > source code too? The BIOS is a piece of software embedded in your hardware that starts before the operating system. So no, Debian doesn't include a BIOS as far as I know. There are projects like http://freebios.sourceforge.net/ that are trying to create a free BIOS. > 3) Does Debian support freehand writing devices such as Wacom > electronics pad? I'm talking about the device driver as well as > application packages such as freehand editing for documentation and > emailing, freehand drawing etc. Not sure here, sorry. "Wacom" is mentioned in the Linux kernel's configuration ("Wacom Intuos/Graphire tablet support", CONFIG_USB_WACOM), so you could try that for the driver if you have a USB tablet, but I have no idea about userspace software for this. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
