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

2002-06-03 Thread T Burt
On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > The temptation with RH is to leave all those services it installs by > default running... which is risky for a firewall. > RH was notorious for having everything enabled, but they surprised me and changed that in RH 7.2. The default now, is to disabl

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 >

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, Dachste

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

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 reco

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 plausibili

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 crea

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

2002-06-03 Thread Omar D. Samuels
t the diskettes? - Original Message - From: "Jeff Newmiller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "T Burt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Leaf User Support List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 12:53 PM Subject: Re: [leaf-user] Boot problems w

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

2002-06-03 Thread Jeff Newmiller
On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, T Burt wrote: > Has anyone had difficulties booting the Supersize floppy? Yes. Others have had much success with them. I have had good success with 1680. It squeezes more sectors on each track, while some other formats (e.g. 1722) add additional tracks (cylinders) to the f

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

2002-06-03 Thread T Burt
Has anyone had difficulties booting the Supersize floppy? I have one machine that stops booting at the "Loading" prompt. The floppy is good, cause it works on other machines. Any guesses if this would be a Syslinux problem? Or initrd? Does anyone know of an URL or reference that might provi