On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Ray Olszewski wrote: > 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.
Sorry for the unintended inference. You are right, it is the original LRP distribution that bears the idiot moniker. I liked the name. It kinda stuck. I am sorry that my message got confused. What I meant was that it is the OLD lrp version THAT WORKS. It is the current LEAF version that fails. idiot-image_1440KB_FAT_2.9.8_Linux_2.2 <-- boots OK Bering_1.0-rc2_img_bering_1680.exe <-- Hangs on Loading.. > > 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. Thank you for the major/minor. You saved me from having to hunt it down in the driver. > > 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. > This is actually the easiest, since I have a newly purchased drive on hand. Thank you for the complete and accurate diagnosis! I am impressed with the quality of the responses I have gotten, from all of you. Thanks again. > > 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 > -- -------------------- Timothy Burt Internet Specialist _______________________________________________________________ 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
