Kevin....ok, before I began this reply I dug out my boot floppy
(a HD 1.44 floppy disc made into a boot disc in a standard 3
1/2" drive) and stuck it in my ls-120, then rebooted (I set the
bios to boot the Ls-120). It was excruciatingly slow (much
slower than a standard floppy boot), but booted the system just
fine.
Ok, that's the bios doing that, not Linux. To get the ls-120
mounted in Linux we need a directory to mount it on. Mine is
'/mnt/ls-120'. Then an entry in '/etc/fstab', here's mine:
/dev/hda /mnt/ls-120 vfat noauto,user,exec 0 0
hda indicates that my ls-120 is connected to the primary ide
controller as the master drive. Most likely yours is
different. I have a SCSI hard drive and cdrom so the only
device on my ide controller is my ls-120. Anyway, if your
ls-120 is the slave on the primary ide controller it'll be hdb,
or the if it's the master on the secondary ide controller it'll
be hdc, or if it's the slave on the secondary ide controller
it'll be hdd.
I'll assume you can now go ahead and mount it via the console
command or create a desktop icon to do it without further help
from me, but if not just give a yell.
Alan
Kevin Sexton wrote:
>
> I have the messages back to september, and don't see any resolution
> to the problem, I don't seem to be able to mount the drive, the
> light doesn't even light.
>
> Alan Shoemaker wrote:
>
> > Kevin....the Ls-120 problem was discussed at great length
> > several months ago on either this list or the expert list. I
> > believe the bottom line was that an HD floppy with the boot info
> > on it would boot fine in an LS-120 drive, but there was no
> > practical way to make a boot floppy using an Ls-120.
> >
> > Alan
> >
> > Kevin Sexton wrote:
> > >
> > > I have had 6.1 installed(from download), and working, and
> > > now am trying to reinstall from powerpack CD's.
> > > my CD-Rom is bootable, but when the install gets to making a
> > > boot disk, it stops, without accessing the floppy
> > > drive(actually a: is ls-120 with floppy disk, is bootable,
> > > fully functional). If I skip making the floppy I get an
> > > error after choosing boot options, no matter how I try to
> > > set it up (MBR or first boot partition, linux or dos as
> > > default)
> > >
> > > Ok I rearranged partitions and got it to install before
> > > sending this message, without making a boot disk, but linux
> > > still doesn't seem to recognize the LS-120. I will try to
> > > get more info, if replies don't help, but I'm out of time
> > > right now.
