I have a 386 laptop that i just installed linux on and I don't know how to print from it and how to automatically mount a floppy. Here is my booth message if anyone can help me. Thank you, Ernesto
Console: 16 point font, 400 scans Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63) pci_init: no BIOS32 detected Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 4.11 BogoMIPS Memory: 6472k/8384k available (968k kernel code, 384k reserved, 560k data) Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0 NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035. Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok. Linux version 2.0.27 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.1) #1 Fri Jan 10 23:46:22 MET 1997 Real Time Clock Driver v1.07 tpqic02: Runtime config, $Revision: 0.4.1.5 $, $Date: 1994/10/29 02:46:13 $ tpqic02: DMA buffers: 20 blocks, at address 0x242e00 (0x242cb0) Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks of 4096K size hda: Conner Peripherals 84MB - CP2084, 81MB w/32kB Cache, CHS=548/8/38 ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M Started kswapd v 1.4.2.2 FDC 0 is an 8272A md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 NCR53c406a: no available ports found qlogicisp : PCI bios not present eata_dma: No BIOS32 extensions present. This driver release still depends on it. Skipping scan for PCI HBAs. eata_pio: No BIOS32 extensions present. This driver release still depends on it. Skipping scan for PCI HBAs. Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! PPA: unable to initialise controller at 0x378, error 2 scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. Ethernet Bridge 002 for NET3.035 (Linux 2.0) Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Adding Swap: 17304k swap-space linear personality registered JAVA Binary support v1.01 for Linux 1.3.98 (C)1996 Brian A. Lantz lp1 at 0x0378, (polling) PS/2 auxiliary pointing device detected -- driver installed. Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450 tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16450 CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel allocation) PPP Dynamic channel allocation code copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc. PPP line discipline registered. SLIP: version 0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY-MODULAR (dynamic channels, max=256). Mem-info: Free pages: 1052kB ( 29*4kB 29*8kB 16*16kB 4*32kB 3*64kB 1*128kB = 1052kB) Swap cache: add 0/0, delete 169469/0, find 0/0 Free swap: 17304kB 2096 pages of RAM 263 free pages 478 reserved pages 1013 pages shared Buffer memory: 292kB Buffer heads: 360 Buffer blocks: 292 Buffer[0] mem: 152 buffers, 8 used (last=17), 0 locked, 0 protected, 0 dirty 0 shrd Buffer[2] mem: 82 buffers, 10 used (last=70), 3 locked, 0 protected, 0 dirty 0 shrd Size [LAV] Free Clean Unshar Lck Lck1 Dirty Shared 512 [ 0]: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1024 [ 2]: 58 152 0 82 0 0 0 2048 [ 0]: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4096 [ 0]: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8192 [ 0]: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Networking buffers in use : 0 Network buffers locked by drivers : 0 Total network buffer allocations : 61 Total failed network buffer allocs : 0 Total free while locked events : 0 IP fragment buffer size : 0 VFS: Disk change detected on device 02:00 end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 VFS: Disk change detected on device 02:00 end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 VFS: Disk change detected on device 02:00