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 sees the 1.2 MB drive as the first floppy drive (/dev/fd0) and the 1.44 MB one as the second floppy drive (/dev/fd1).
One consequence of this is that at the end of installing Debian (hamm), I was unable to make a custom boot disk for my system, because when the installation program asked me to insert a blank floppy, I put a 1.44 MB floppy in the drive, and it said something like "Making boot floppy failed. Check that the floppy isn't write-protected and is in the correct drive". The same thing happened when I tried the mkboot command later on. Is there a way of making Linux see my 1.44 MB drive as /dev/fd0 and the other one as /dev/fd1? I apologize in case this is an old question, already answered. Many thanks, Raghavendra. _________________________________________________________________________ N. Raghavendra, Mehta Research Institute, Chhatnag Road, Jhusi, Allahabad 211 019, India. Fax: 91-532-667576. Phone: Office: 91-532-667511*2020 Home: 91-532-667511*4020. -------------------------------------------------------------------------
