On Friday 18 Oct 2002 1:15 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: At 01:13 AM 10/18/2002 +1300, Sharrea wrote: <snip> > >Anyway simple instructions are here: > >http://www.iomega.com/support/documents/10661.html > > > >I was surprised at just how simple it is! Took all of 2 minutes!
> Thx Sharrea! I was about to ask how to do this or hunt the web... > whichever came first. My question is related tho... I've ripped out hte > floppy on my desktop machine (don't ask why ... long story). So now when > i install MDK It asks do i want to add packages selection to a floppy > drive. Well YES I BLOODY WELL DO! But I have no floppy... so will a zip > drive work in this situation?! > > I don't think it will but maybe someone can point me to how to do this? > or if its been done before? > Femme I have done that in the past but not by choice. The sh*tty IBM Deskstar hd I had at the time was causing all sorts of hw conflicts and when installing MDK (8.0 I think), the install process didn't recognise my floppy drive and kept writing my boot disk, etc, to the zip drive instead. The strange thing was that after the initial reboot the floppy drive did indeed show up every time! (had that happen 3-4 times) I don't know how you would actually _tell_ the installation to use your zip drive, but perhaps with no floppy drive present, it will just do it automatically anyway(?) Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today
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