"N. Raghavendra" wrote: > > 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. _____________________________________________________ Change the order in your bios setup. Linux will take it's que from the bios.
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