Here there are three diskettes which at least two machines cold boot from. Also the qemu virtual machine boots from the diskette image file. In fact that has allowed installation of an OS by this procedure. http://www.ocp.inf.ethz.ch/wiki/Documentation/Installation#toc23
These are the results when attempting to boot the qemu virtual machine from the diskettes. root@dalton:/home/peter# qemu-system-i386 -fda /dev/fd0 -vga std -boot a qemu-system-i386: -fda /dev/fd0: could not open disk image /dev/fd0: Could not refresh total sector count: Input/output error root@dalton:/home/peter# qemu-system-i386 -fda /dev/fd0 -vga std -boot a qemu-system-i386: -fda /dev/fd0: could not open disk image /dev/fd0: Could not open '/dev/fd0': Permission denied root@dalton:/home/peter# qemu-system-i386 -fda /dev/fd0 -vga std -boot a qemu-system-i386: -fda /dev/fd0: could not open disk image /dev/fd0: Could not open '/dev/fd0': Permission denied "Could not refresh total sector count" might be significant. I don't know. In any case, the hypothesis that "-fda /dev/fd0" fails for qemu-system-i386 stands until someone reports a counterexample. I haven't find one. Regards, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +1 360 639 0202 http://carnot.yi.org/ Bcc: peter at easthope. ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
