Summary: [leaf-user] Boot problems with Supersize (1680) floppy

2002-06-03 Thread T Burt
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

Re: Summary: [leaf-user] Boot problems with Supersize (1680) floppy

2002-06-03 Thread Ray Olszewski
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

Re: Summary: [leaf-user] Boot problems with Supersize (1680) floppy

2002-06-03 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
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. For the record,

Re: Summary: [leaf-user] Boot problems with Supersize (1680) floppy

2002-06-03 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 03:31 PM 6/3/02 -0500, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: 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

Re: Summary: [leaf-user] Boot problems with Supersize (1680) floppy

2002-06-03 Thread Jeff Newmiller
On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, 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. idiot image... is this a hint that you are referring to LRP2.9.8? or Eigerstein, Dachstein,

Re: Summary: [leaf-user] Boot problems with Supersize (1680) floppy

2002-06-03 Thread T Burt
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

Re: Summary: [leaf-user] Boot problems with Supersize (1680) floppy

2002-06-03 Thread T Burt
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