Re: Booting a Compaq 120MB floppy
On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Ian Redfern wrote:
> I tried to use bootdisks 2.1.3 on a new Compaq DeskPro with the 120MB floppy
> drive. It booted fine. When it came to install the kernel from the floppy it
> booted from, it hung for a long time and gave the message "mount /dev/fd0
> (type msdos) on /floppy: wrong filesystem type or bad superblock on
> /dev/fd0", then again for ext2fs.
This is how all IDE zip disks and IDE super disks work as well. Right now
debian hamm cannot be easially installed from such a floppy drive. Note
that a machine with a Super disk will have only a super disk as it can
read and boot normal floppy disks.
Jason
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