Re: Small Problems

[David Talkington <dtalk prairienet org>]

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David Talkington wrote:

>Ben Ocean wrote:
>
>>> > dd if=/boot/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 bs=8192
>>> > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
>>> > dd: opening '/dev/fd0': Read-only file system
>>> > rdev /boot/vmlinuz
>>> > Root device /dev/sde1
>
>>ran this:
>>mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd1 2.4.2-2
>>spat out a bunch of numbers, then:
>>floppy1: floppy timeout called
>>end_request: I/O error, device 02:01 (floppy), sector 0
>>mkdosfs: unable to open /dev/fd1
>>Failed to format /dev/fd1
>
>Try another floppy disk.

Also just realized that you specified /dev/fd1.  On most PCs, you want
/dev/fd0.

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David Talkington
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