Re: USB floppy drive mount problem

2006-05-19 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Eftaxiopoulos Dimitrios wrote: > OK. I can mount the floppy and see its contents. I have to insert the floppy > in the floppy drive first and then plug the usb floppy drive to the computer. > I did not change anything to the fstab entry. > > Thanks for the help > > Στις

Re: USB floppy drive mount problem

2006-05-18 Thread Eftaxiopoulos Dimitrios
OK. I can mount the floppy and see its contents. I have to insert the floppy in the floppy drive first and then plug the usb floppy drive to the computer. I did not change anything to the fstab entry. Thanks for the help Στις Πεμ 18 Μαι 2006 15:23, ο/η Eftaxiopoulos Dimitrios έγραψε: > >

Re: Re: USB floppy drive mount problem

2006-05-18 Thread Eftaxiopoulos Dimitrios
>After plugging in the floppy drive take a look at the system messages: >dmesg | tail -40 >Is your floppy drive really registered as sdb? This is the output of dmesg | tail -40. I don't know what it means. usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using address 5 scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass S

Re: USB floppy drive mount problem

2006-05-18 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
After plugging in the floppy drive take a look at the system messages: dmesg | tail -40 Is your floppy drive really registered as sdb? Regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

USB floppy drive mount problem

2006-05-18 Thread Eftaxiopoulos Dimitrios
Hello, I have a NEC, model UF0002, USB floppy drive and I cannot mount it on a laptop with sarge 2.6.8. However, I can mount and use a USB flash disk, by adding to fstab the entry /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 autosync,noauto,user,exec 0 0 The entry /dev/sdb/media/usbfd

grub install problem on usb floppy

2005-07-20 Thread gm c
My laptop has a usb floppy connected to it. I am unable to make a grub floppy because I grub wont recogognize the device. I am using v.0.95. If I "grub> find /boot/grub/stage1" all are found but the floppy. when I "[EMAIL PROTECTED] grub" Probing devices to guess BIOS drive

Re: USB floppy

2005-07-15 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 15 Jul 2005, Takis Diakoumis wrote: > is anyone using a usb floppy successfully?? > i'm running debian etch with a custom debian kernel 2.6.11. Yeah, without any problem. I have an IBM branded TEAC USB floppy drive, very similar to yours: [...] > usb 2-1.4: new full speed US

USB floppy

2005-07-15 Thread Takis Diakoumis
Hi is anyone using a usb floppy successfully?? i'm running debian etch with a custom debian kernel 2.6.11. i have an ibm thinkpad r51. i bought an ibm usb floppy drive for it also. the system picks it up ok like so from dmesg: usb 2-1.4: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and addr

Re: Install Debian No CDROM, USB Floppy and Wireless Card

2005-04-24 Thread Benedek Frank
Card as > > Orinoco just fine and I can do a Network install. > > > > Now, I am asking if I can do the same booting from the Debian > > floppies? I do > > not have a USB CDrom, just a USB Floppy. Is it possible anyway to boot > > from a > > USB floppy? > >

Re: Install Debian No CDROM, USB Floppy and Wireless Card

2005-04-24 Thread Tim Cutts
and I can do a Network install. Now, I am asking if I can do the same booting from the Debian floppies? I do not have a USB CDrom, just a USB Floppy. Is it possible anyway to boot from a USB floppy? Years ago I installed Debian on a Libretto 100CT (and it's still going strong; puny it may b

Re: Install Debian No CDROM, USB Floppy and Wireless Card

2005-04-22 Thread Jochen Schulz
yes, hardware support is the same for all installation images (cdrom, floppy or hd-media). > I do not have a USB CDrom, just a USB Floppy. Is it possible anyway to > boot from a USB floppy? That depends on your mainboard/BIOS. > Basically my question is that will the few debian install

Re: Install Debian No CDROM, USB Floppy and Wireless Card

2005-04-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 22 April 2005 09:46, Benedek Frank wrote: > Basically my question is that will the few debian install floppies > allow my system to recognize an orinoco chipset wireless card, and > allow me to install from the NET thereafter? Yes, this should be possible using the boot, root and net-dri

Install Debian No CDROM, USB Floppy and Wireless Card

2005-04-22 Thread Benedek Frank
asking if I can do the same booting from the Debian floppies? I do not have a USB CDrom, just a USB Floppy. Is it possible anyway to boot from a USB floppy? Basically my question is that will the few debian install floppies allow my system to recognize an orinoco chipset wireless card, and allow me

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-15 Thread Daniel Pittman
dir and mdel) allows one to iteract >> with ms* floppies without mounting > > nope not for the external usb floppy I was asking for. > ( mtools were my first try of course ) One thing to remember is that the 'mtools' package ships with a "standard" configurati

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-15 Thread Uwe Brauer
> >> > It's great that the KDE community is addressing ms* floppies, but, > remember mtools (i.e. mcopy and mdir and mdel) allows one to iteract > with ms* floppies without mounting > > James nope not for the external usb floppy I was asking for. ( mtools were my first try of course )

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-15 Thread Daniel Pittman
dir and mdel) allows one to iteract >> with ms* floppies without mounting > > nope not for the external usb floppy I was asking for. > ( mtools were my first try of course ) One thing to remember is that the 'mtools' package ships with a "standard" configurati

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-15 Thread Uwe Brauer
> >> > It's great that the KDE community is addressing ms* floppies, but, > remember mtools (i.e. mcopy and mdir and mdel) allows one to iteract > with ms* floppies without mounting > > James nope not for the external usb floppy I was asking for. ( mtools were my first try of course ) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread James
Uwe Brauer wrote: On 14 Apr 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You probably already have: /dev/fd0 /floppy auto user,noauto 0 0 Change it to/add: /dev/sda /floppy auto user,noauto 0 0 Good point, I have /dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0 So

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread James
Uwe Brauer wrote: On 14 Apr 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You probably already have: /dev/fd0 /floppy auto user,noauto 0 0 Change it to/add: /dev/sda /floppy auto user,noauto 0 0 Good point, I have /dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0 So I guess

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread Uwe Brauer
On 14 Apr 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You probably already have: /dev/fd0 /floppy auto user,noauto 0 0 > Change it to/add: /dev/sda /floppy auto user,noauto 0 0 > Good point, I have /dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0 So I guess /dev/sda /floppy vf

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread Uwe Brauer
On 14 Apr 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi again... Since I want to use floppy and interchange them with linux and Windows PC it turns out that mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/usbdisk1 Was the thing to do, Thanks Uwe

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread Uwe Brauer
> >but replace ext3 if necessary with the type. vfat is more common if >you are using 'Windows' floppies. But mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/usbdisk1 Finally works, Thanks all of you, you helped me to rapidly! It was very annoying that I had to boot XP in order to use the USB floppy Uwe

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread Rob Sims
On Wednesday 14 April 2004 08:10 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello Uwe > > > > sibus0: > > 0,0,0 0) 'HL-DT-ST' 'DVD-ROM GDR8081N' '0012' Removable CD-ROM > > scsibus1: > > 1,0,0 100) 'TEAC' 'FD-05PUB' '1026' Removable Disk > That just looks fine > Don`t car

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread Dave Cox
Floppy disks aren't partitionedare they? Surely that's why fdisk prints rubbish. Try mount -t ext3 /dev/sda /mnt/usbdisk1 (drop the '1' off /dev/sda1) but replace ext3 if necessary with the type. vfat is more common if you are using 'Windows' floppies. Dave On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 15:18,

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread gingupin
Hi again... > There are two "options" now if you want to make it easy: > > #mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda > makes it possible to create a new filesystem on the whole device OR: > #fdisk /dev/sda > and then you start to delete all the partitions and create a new partition > table BUT... > But if there

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Uwe Brauer wrote: > On 14 Apr 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for you reply: >> >> The basics: >> >> A USB floppy disk drive does *not* live on /dev/fd?, it lives as a >> SCSI disk drive, by virtue of the USB storage device protoc

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread gingupin
Hi again... > On 14 Apr 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello Jörg, > > Thanks for your help > > > #fdisk -l /dev/sda > > This gives me a truely odd result > --88--- > fdisk -l /dev/sda > > Disk /dev/sda: 1 MB, 1474560 bytes > 1 heads, 3 s

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread Uwe Brauer
On 14 Apr 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Jörg, Thanks for your help > > #fdisk -l /dev/sda This gives me a truely odd result --88--- fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 1 MB, 1474560 bytes 1 heads, 3 sectors/track, 960 cylinders Uni

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread gingupin
Hello Uwe > > sibus0: > 0,0,0 0) 'HL-DT-ST' 'DVD-ROM GDR8081N' '0012' Removable CD-ROM > scsibus1: > 1,0,0 100) 'TEAC' 'FD-05PUB' '1026' Removable Disk That just looks fine Don`t care about the cdrom ! According to the fact, that there are no other devices fo

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread Uwe Brauer
On 14 Apr 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello Uwe > >> mount -t ext3 /dev/scd0 /floppy/ mount: block device /dev/scd0 is >> write-protected, mounting read-only mount: No medium found >> >> And nothing happens >> >> > No matter if it is the USB-Stick, external HD or the digital > Kamera... ever

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread Uwe Brauer
On 14 Apr 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You probably already have: /dev/fd0 /floppy auto user,noauto 0 0 > Change it to/add: /dev/sda /floppy auto user,noauto 0 0 > Good point, I have /dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0 So I guess /dev/sda /floppy vf

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread gingupin
Hello Uwe > mount -t ext3 /dev/scd0 /floppy/ > mount: block device /dev/scd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only > mount: No medium found > > And nothing happens > > No matter if it is the USB-Stick, external HD or the digital Kamera... every device is listed when I run cdrecord -scanbus try

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread Uwe Brauer
On 14 Apr 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi again... Since I want to use floppy and interchange them with linux and Windows PC it turns out that mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/usbdisk1 Was the thing to do, Thanks Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread Uwe Brauer
On 14 Apr 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for you reply: > > The basics: > > A USB floppy disk drive does *not* live on /dev/fd?, it lives as a > SCSI disk drive, by virtue of the USB storage device protocols. Ok, I did not know that to start with > > So: > > D

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread Uwe Brauer
> >but replace ext3 if necessary with the type. vfat is more common if >you are using 'Windows' floppies. But mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/usbdisk1 Finally works, Thanks all of you, you helped me to rapidly! It was very annoying that I had to boot XP in order to use the USB

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread Uwe Brauer
On 14 Apr 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Uwe > > What messages do you get when you plug in the floppy? Use dmesg to > look at these if you are not sure where to find them. > > I have a TEAC USB floppy which is not yet supported.. I'm about to > sell it to get

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Uwe Brauer wrote: > I installed Knoppix 3.3 with debian woody. The external USB floppy > shipped by IBM works with Windows XP, but I cannot access it from > linux. > Can anybody help me please? The basics: A USB floppy disk drive does *not* live on /dev/fd?, i

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread Rob Sims
On Wednesday 14 April 2004 08:10 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello Uwe > > > > sibus0: > > 0,0,0 0) 'HL-DT-ST' 'DVD-ROM GDR8081N' '0012' Removable CD-ROM > > scsibus1: > > 1,0,0 100) 'TEAC' 'FD-05PUB' '1026' Removable Disk > That just looks fine > Don`t car

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread Dave Cox
Floppy disks aren't partitionedare they? Surely that's why fdisk prints rubbish. Try mount -t ext3 /dev/sda /mnt/usbdisk1 (drop the '1' off /dev/sda1) but replace ext3 if necessary with the type. vfat is more common if you are using 'Windows' floppies. Dave On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 15:18,

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread gingupin
Hi again... > There are two "options" now if you want to make it easy: > > #mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda > makes it possible to create a new filesystem on the whole device OR: > #fdisk /dev/sda > and then you start to delete all the partitions and create a new partition > table BUT... > But if there

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Uwe Brauer wrote: > On 14 Apr 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for you reply: >> >> The basics: >> >> A USB floppy disk drive does *not* live on /dev/fd?, it lives as a >> SCSI disk drive, by virtue of the USB storage device protoc

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread gingupin
Hi again... > On 14 Apr 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello Jörg, > > Thanks for your help > > > #fdisk -l /dev/sda > > This gives me a truely odd result > --88--- > fdisk -l /dev/sda > > Disk /dev/sda: 1 MB, 1474560 bytes > 1 heads, 3 s

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread Uwe Brauer
On 14 Apr 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Jörg, Thanks for your help > > #fdisk -l /dev/sda This gives me a truely odd result --88--- fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 1 MB, 1474560 bytes 1 heads, 3 sectors/track, 960 cylinders Uni

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread gingupin
Hello Uwe > > sibus0: > 0,0,0 0) 'HL-DT-ST' 'DVD-ROM GDR8081N' '0012' Removable CD-ROM > scsibus1: > 1,0,0 100) 'TEAC' 'FD-05PUB' '1026' Removable Disk That just looks fine Don`t care about the cdrom ! According to the fact, that there are no other devices fo

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread Uwe Brauer
On 14 Apr 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello Uwe > >> mount -t ext3 /dev/scd0 /floppy/ mount: block device /dev/scd0 is >> write-protected, mounting read-only mount: No medium found >> >> And nothing happens >> >> > No matter if it is the USB-Stick, external HD or the digital > Kamera... ever

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread Dave Cox
Uwe What messages do you get when you plug in the floppy? Use dmesg to look at these if you are not sure where to find them. I have a TEAC USB floppy which is not yet supported.. I'm about to sell it to get one of the Mitsumi drives. Dave Cox On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 12:41, Uwe Brauer

IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread Uwe Brauer
Hello I installed Knoppix 3.3 with debian woody. The external USB floppy shipped by IBM works with Windows XP, but I cannot access it from linux. Can anybody help me please? Thanks in advance Uwe Brauer

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread gingupin
Hello Uwe > mount -t ext3 /dev/scd0 /floppy/ > mount: block device /dev/scd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only > mount: No medium found > > And nothing happens > > No matter if it is the USB-Stick, external HD or the digital Kamera... every device is listed when I run cdrecord -scanbus try

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread Uwe Brauer
On 14 Apr 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for you reply: > > The basics: > > A USB floppy disk drive does *not* live on /dev/fd?, it lives as a > SCSI disk drive, by virtue of the USB storage device protocols. Ok, I did not know that to start with > > So: > > D

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread Uwe Brauer
On 14 Apr 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Uwe > > What messages do you get when you plug in the floppy? Use dmesg to > look at these if you are not sure where to find them. > > I have a TEAC USB floppy which is not yet supported.. I'm about to > sell it to get

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Uwe Brauer wrote: > I installed Knoppix 3.3 with debian woody. The external USB floppy > shipped by IBM works with Windows XP, but I cannot access it from > linux. > Can anybody help me please? The basics: A USB floppy disk drive does *not* live on /dev/fd?, i

Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread Dave Cox
Uwe What messages do you get when you plug in the floppy? Use dmesg to look at these if you are not sure where to find them. I have a TEAC USB floppy which is not yet supported.. I'm about to sell it to get one of the Mitsumi drives. Dave Cox On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 12:41, Uwe Brauer

IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

2004-04-14 Thread Uwe Brauer
Hello I installed Knoppix 3.3 with debian woody. The external USB floppy shipped by IBM works with Windows XP, but I cannot access it from linux. Can anybody help me please? Thanks in advance Uwe Brauer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: usb floppy

2002-07-10 Thread Karl-Heinz Eischer
Hi Steve, On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 12:42:02PM -0700, steve thompson wrote: > ~$ mdir /floppy > Can't open /dev/fd0: Permission denied > Cannot initialize 'A:' > > > I'm using Hotplug now which seems to work well. > usbmgr worked but leaves some modules still to be > loaded. > > /dev/sda

Re: usb floppy

2002-07-10 Thread steve thompson
Thanks for the advice on the usb floppy. Now that it's working, let me ask, it is necessary to unmount and mount each time I insert a new floppy disk, or is there some way to simplify the process? In the past I would use mtools, but with the usb setup that gives the following: ~$ mdir /f

Re: usb floppy

2002-07-07 Thread Joe Wreschnig
(Doing this IRT a reply, since I accidentally deleted the original message...) On 24 Jun 2002 13:01:53 -0700 (PDT) steve thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Fujitsu P-2040 lifebook on which I've put > Woody with the 2.4.18 kernel. It has an external usb >

Re: usb floppy

2002-07-06 Thread Jeff
Jun 2002 13:01:53 -0700 (PDT) steve thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Fujitsu P-2040 lifebook on which I've put > Woody with the 2.4.18 kernel. It has an external usb > floppy drive which I anticipate using just > ocassionally. I managed to mount it by loading a

usb floppy

2002-06-24 Thread steve thompson
I have a Fujitsu P-2040 lifebook on which I've put Woody with the 2.4.18 kernel. It has an external usb floppy drive which I anticipate using just ocassionally. I managed to mount it by loading a number of modules for scsi and usb support using modprobe and the mount command. What would b

usb floppy

2002-06-24 Thread steve thompson
I have a Fujitsu P-2040 lifebook on which I've put Woody with the 2.4.18 kernel. It has an external usb floppy drive which I anticipate using just ocassionally. I managed to mount it by loading a number of modules for scsi and usb support using modprobe and the mount command. What would b

Re: Install from USB floppy?

2001-05-15 Thread p
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:20:40PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Here's how I installed Debian on my Vaio (Z505S, August 1999) with USB > floppy: > >1. Obtained the RedHat single-floppy "network install" disk, in my > case from 6.0. >2.

Re: Install from USB floppy?

2001-05-15 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Here's how I installed Debian on my Vaio (Z505S, August 1999) with USB floppy: 1. Obtained the RedHat single-floppy "network install" disk, in my case from 6.0. 2. Partitioned the disk, leaving the hibernate partition alone, and installed into what would become the

Re: Install from USB floppy?

2001-05-15 Thread p
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:20:40PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Here's how I installed Debian on my Vaio (Z505S, August 1999) with USB > floppy: > >1. Obtained the RedHat single-floppy "network install" disk, in my > case from 6.0. >2.

Re: Install from USB floppy?

2001-05-15 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Here's how I installed Debian on my Vaio (Z505S, August 1999) with USB floppy: 1. Obtained the RedHat single-floppy "network install" disk, in my case from 6.0. 2. Partitioned the disk, leaving the hibernate partition alone, and installed into what would

Re: Install from USB floppy?

2001-05-09 Thread J.R. Blain
he hard drive... Had an > old Toshiba laptop to get a system on that disk at the time, but not any > more now. In the meantime the kernels have USB support and I can use the > USB floppy as a SCSI device. > > If I put my hand-rolled kernel with the required USB support onto the > rescu

Install from USB floppy?

2001-05-09 Thread Kai Martens
it is running from the rescue floppy to the hard drive... Had an old Toshiba laptop to get a system on that disk at the time, but not any more now. In the meantime the kernels have USB support and I can use the USB floppy as a SCSI device. If I put my hand-rolled kernel with the required USB

Re: Install from USB floppy?

2001-05-09 Thread J.R. Blain
he hard drive... Had an > old Toshiba laptop to get a system on that disk at the time, but not any > more now. In the meantime the kernels have USB support and I can use the > USB floppy as a SCSI device. > > If I put my hand-rolled kernel with the required USB support onto the > rescu

Install from USB floppy?

2001-05-09 Thread Kai Martens
kernel it is running from the rescue floppy to the hard drive... Had an old Toshiba laptop to get a system on that disk at the time, but not any more now. In the meantime the kernels have USB support and I can use the USB floppy as a SCSI device. If I put my hand-rolled kernel with the required USB

Re: [Fwd: usb floppy drive/anything]

2000-05-03 Thread Heather
-- From: pplaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 10:12:48 -0700 > To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" > Subject: usb floppy drive/anything > debs, > > i just got a sony picturebook (pcg-c1xs) yesterday. > i did a smooth, harddrive install

Re: [Fwd: usb floppy drive/anything]

2000-05-03 Thread Swamy Ananthanarayan
id of all the junk you don't need and it will make your system faster. The mount that you performed with /dev/fd0 failed because the system had no idea about your USB floppy drive. And even if it did know (somehow) the floppy would not be located under /dev/fd0 (it would be /dev/something sin

[Fwd: usb floppy drive/anything]

2000-05-03 Thread pplaw
--- Begin Message --- debs, i just got a sony picturebook (pcg-c1xs) yesterday. i did a smooth, harddrive install. (thanks project!) having a usb floppy drive, i want to make a boot floppy, but the box doesn't recognize /dev/fd0. eg. "$ mount /dev/fd0 /bt "