Re: [Cooker] 9.2 cannot produce a floppy boot disk.

[Ron Stodden]

Randy Welch wrote:
Ron Stodden wrote:

John
FWIW, this exact same problem also existed in 9.1, so it is not a 9.2 
regression.

Ahh but in 9.1 you could create a floppy from drakfloppy.  You cannot do 
that in 9.2.

I filed a bug report on it....
Interesting.  drakfloppy provides a pulldown list for the device, but it 
only contains /dev/fd0

The list should give the choices of:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ron]# ls -l /dev/fd/
total 0
lrwx------    1 root     root           64 Oct 18 19:06 0 -> /dev/pts/1
lrwx------    1 root     root           64 Oct 18 19:06 1 -> /dev/pts/1
lrwx------    1 root     root           64 Oct 18 19:06 2 -> /dev/pts/1
lr-x------    1 root     root           64 Oct 18 19:06 3 -> /proc/6817/fd/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ron]# ls /dev/fd*
/dev/fd@        /dev/fd0u1120@  /dev/fd0u1680@  /dev/fd0u1760@ 
/dev/fd0u360@  /dev/fd0u820@
/dev/fd0@       /dev/fd0u1440@  /dev/fd0u1722@  /dev/fd0u1840@ 
/dev/fd0u720@  /dev/fd0u830@
/dev/fd0u1040@  /dev/fd0u1600@  /dev/fd0u1743@  /dev/fd0u1920@ 
/dev/fd0u800@
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ron]# ls /dev/floppy/
0       0u1120  0u1600  0u1722  0u1760  0u1920  0u720  0u820
0u1040  0u1440  0u1680  0u1743  0u1840  0u360   0u800  0u830

which should provide enough floppy space.   In practice, most floppies 
will stand these higher bit densities.

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