A few comments ... 1. We don't have idiots here (at least I don't think we do), so I infer from your use of the phrase "idiot image for 1680" that you are using Dave Cinege's old LRP 2.9.8, not one of the newer LEAF distributions that this list primarily supports. This increases the plausibility of the guess (that someone else made) that you have a syslinux problem. Try a newer image from one of the current LEAF versions and see if that helps.
2. I'm surprised that RH does not include /dev/fd0u1680, but you can easily make it yourself with the mknod command. The major and minor values you need (taken from my Debian workstation) are 2, 44. We shouldn't rule out the possibility that your Win2K box's handling of the 1680 format was marginal, causing it to work with some drives and not others. 3. The third realistic possibility is a marginal floppy drive, one that can't quite manage to read the additional tracks that the 1680 format uses. If the target hardware uses a standard floppy drive, you might see if swapping in a newer one improves the device's performance. At 12:53 PM 6/3/02 -0700, T Burt wrote: >Thank you all for your replies, you have all been most helpful. > >To make up some deficiencies in my post... > >I used the idiot image for 1680 from the downloads. Since my redhat >box doesn't have a device for 1680, I used the Windows exe version, which >works great! Thank you. > >The floppy I created works OK in several boxes, except for this Old >Pentium, that I got for cheap. However, the 1440 version of the old lrp >DOES work in the Old Pentium, so the floppy drive is good, but perhaps not >good enough. > >I have a couple of spare 1.44 drives, so I will try that next. And report >back the results when I do... > >BTW, these boxes do come with a 1 GB SCSI drive and an adaptec 2940 >controller, so all is not lost. I will probably just hook up a cdrom and >load a redhat on there, since I already have the wireless stuff working on >Redhat. -- -----------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
