Re: Floppy drive problem.

1999-06-02 Thread N. Raghavendra
Hi, Many thanks to all the people who replied to my email about my floppy drive problem. A quick recap: in my BIOS setup I had configured A: as 1.44MB and B: as 1.2 MB, but Linux sees the 1.2 MB drive as /dev/fd0 and the 1.44 MB one as /dev/fd1, and I wanted to know how to reverse this order, so

Re: Floppy drive problem.

1999-06-02 Thread Michael Doyle
On Wed, 02 Jun 1999, N. Raghavendra wrote: Hi, Many thanks to all the people who replied to my email about my floppy drive problem. A quick recap: in my BIOS setup I had configured A: as 1.44MB and B: as 1.2 MB, but Linux sees the 1.2 MB drive as /dev/fd0 and the 1.44 MB one as /dev/fd1

Re: Floppy drive problem.

1999-06-01 Thread Keith G. Murphy
N. Raghavendra wrote: Hi, I am a Debian newbie and have the following problem with my floppy drives. There are two of them: a 1.44 MB floppy drive and an unused 1.2 MB floppy drive. In the BIOS setup I have configured the 1.44 MB drive as A: and the other floppy drive as B:. Are you

Re: Floppy drive problem.

1999-06-01 Thread Morgoth3
If i recall,i had that problem. Just use the command umount with the same parameters as mount that you used, and then you can use mount again without a problem. Colin Winters

Re: Floppy drive problem.

1999-05-31 Thread Kenneth Scharf
On Sat, 29 May 1999, N. Raghavendra wrote: I am a Debian newbie and have the following problem with my floppy drives. There are two of them: a 1.44 MB floppy drive and an unused 1.2 MB floppy drive. In the BIOS setup I have configured the 1.44 MB drive as A: and the other floppy drive as

Re: Floppy drive problem.

1999-05-30 Thread David B.Teague
On Sat, 29 May 1999, N. Raghavendra wrote: I am a Debian newbie and have the following problem with my floppy drives. There are two of them: a 1.44 MB floppy drive and an unused 1.2 MB floppy drive. In the BIOS setup I have configured the 1.44 MB drive as A: and the other floppy drive as

Floppy drive problem.

1999-05-29 Thread N. Raghavendra
Hi, I am a Debian newbie and have the following problem with my floppy drives. There are two of them: a 1.44 MB floppy drive and an unused 1.2 MB floppy drive. In the BIOS setup I have configured the 1.44 MB drive as A: and the other floppy drive as B:. But Linux seems to reverse this order: it

Re: Floppy drive problem.

1999-05-29 Thread John Foster
N. Raghavendra wrote: Hi, I am a Debian newbie and have the following problem with my floppy drives. There are two of them: a 1.44 MB floppy drive and an unused 1.2 MB floppy drive. In the BIOS setup I have configured the 1.44 MB drive as A: and the other floppy drive as B:. But Linux

Re: Floppy drive problem

1999-04-10 Thread R. Marx
Hi Tyrus, Remember to use the rawrite (or dd in *nix) when creating these floppies rather than formatting and just coping the file to them. They should fit on a normal high density disk. Hope this helps, Rob

Floppy drive problem

1999-04-09 Thread tyrus
I seem to be having a problem with my floppy drive install of Debian GNU/Linux. I downloade rescu144.bin, and it is exactly 1.4 MB. However, I can't seem to get ahold of a floppy that has more that 1.38 MB of space on it. It says they are 1.4 MB floppies, but upon formatting them, I find

Re: Floppy Drive Problem.

1999-03-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Floppy Drive Problem. Date: Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 09:23:24AM -0500 In reply to:Person, Roderick Quoting Person, Roderick([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hey guys, The first question of the day for me has to due with Debian and Floppy drives. When I first installed debian, I had

Floppy Drive Problem.

1999-03-11 Thread Person, Roderick
Hey guys, The first question of the day for me has to due with Debian and Floppy drives. When I first installed debian, I had no problems with floppy drives, and in the quest for the perfect Deb Box something when wrong, I guess. It seems that I can format ext2 fs on floppy. At first I thougth