On 02/25/2011 06:49 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
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I have found the culprit: it was a bad floppy disk! The media was
physically defective and was causing I/O errors. Once I put a good
floppy in it, everything worked fine. How embarrassing! Thanks to
all who replied, and sorry for the noise
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 02:07:27 -0500 (EST), Dom wrote:
> On 25/02/11 02:32, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> ...
>> Does anyone, anywhere, have a working USB
>> floppy drive under Debian Squeeze? If so, I'd like to know about
>> it, and what you did to get it working.
>> ...
> Yes. I have a USB floppy driv
On 25/02/11 02:32, Stephen Powell wrote:
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:47:30 -0500 (EST), Wayne Topa wrote:
Not having a usb floppy I am just throwing this out there
Have you installed the ufiformat package? A search of the package
lists only show that (might) be helpful.
Thanks for the suggesti
I, actually, used unetbootin and squeeze live cd and it worked great
for me. Just make sure to format the usb fat32 before using
unetbootin.
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 2:32 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:47:30 -0500 (EST), Wayne Topa wrote:
>>
>> Not having a usb floppy I am jus
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:47:30 -0500 (EST), Wayne Topa wrote:
>
> Not having a usb floppy I am just throwing this out there
>
> Have you installed the ufiformat package? A search of the package
> lists only show that (might) be helpful.
Thanks for the suggestion, Wayne, but I need to crawl befo
On 02/23/2011 07:27 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
I have recently install Debian Squeeze on an IBM ThinkPad X31. It has
an external USB-attached floppy drive. The BIOS sees it. I can boot
from it just fine, and when running Windows 95 in MS-DOS mode (no WIN.EXE
running) I can access it as drive "A
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