Re: USB Floppy
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 15:53, Joey Hess wrote:
> Shah wrote:
> > I just got a new laptop (Toshiba R100) and I thought I'd give the new
> > debian-installer a try. The laptop only has a USB floppy drive and I'm
> > having trouble getting the installer to start. I dowloaded the
> > bootfloppy image, the floppy image, and the net_drivers image and tried
> > booting with those. The first floppy boots fine, but it can't find the
> > second floppy... Is there anything I can try to get it going?
>
> Which versions of them did you download? The bootfloppy should have USB
> support. Maybe it just cannot find your USB host adaptor or something.
I got them from: http://people.debian.org/~sjogren/d-i/images/daily/
>
> Do you know that this USB floppy drive is in fact supported by linux?
> I own one that is, and one that is not.
Its the one the Sony Vaio's use: PCGA-UFD5. According to linux-usb.org
its supported.
>
> It's possible that this is a usb hotplug issue, so one very easy thing
> to try is boot up, unplug your floppy, and plug it back in. This may be
> necessary for the kernel to notice it's there.
When I tried this, the floppy drive spun for a bit, but the install
wouldn't continue. Will it detect the disk and keep going? Or is there
some key I'm supposed to press? I just hit enter and it still just sat
there printing dots to the screen.
>
> A more complicated thing to try is, at the boot: prompt, enter
> "linux BOOT_DEBUG=5"
> This will produce a very verbose bootup, and it will drop you into a
> shell at several points (just exit the shell to keep going). There is a
> program called usb-discover that tries to detect your USB and load the
> right module to support it. You can try running that, or modprobing the
> appropriate kernel modules by hand. If your floppy is detected by the
> kernel, /dev/scsi will be populated with a set of directories and
> devices. If you have that tree, this is not a USB detection problem, but
> something else.
Trying this now...
--
Shah <msdin@shaw.ca>
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