Re: Toshiba 3100SX : "No BIOS32 etx..."

[ke@pertron.central.de (Karl Eichwalder)]

Next week I will give your new install disks a test.

Bruce> It would be interesting to know if your floppy-change switch
Bruce> is bad or not.  I haven't seen this on a laptop before.  If
Bruce> it is, you should be able to dd in a floppy, remove the disk
Bruce> from the drive, and then dd in at least part of the floppy
Bruce> (from the buffer cache). If the switch is OK it should
Bruce> complain right away.

I don't know, if I understand you right. It seems to be okay (or is my
test not what you want?):

    $ ls -l /tmp/floppy
        ... 1474560 ... /tmp/floppy

    $ dd of=/dev/fd0 if=/tmp/floppy bs=1k
        1440+0 records in
        1440+0 records out

    Now I remove the disk.

    $ dd of=/tmp/test if=/dev/fd0 bs=1k
        dd: /def/fd0: No such device or address

Since we are talking about floppies and fd utilities... It to have the
fdutils package available:

%f1 imag.fr:/pub/Linux/ZLIBC/fdutils
%f2 imag.fr:/pub/Linux/ZLIBC/fdutils/ALPHA
%f3 imag.fr:/pub/Linux/ZLIBC/fdutils/ALPHA
%t1 fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz

The package is also on:

  120773 Apr 01 95 funet/tools/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
  120773 Jan 20 95 funet/util/tools/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
  120773 Jan 20 95 tsx-11/sources/sbin/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
  120773 Jan 27 95 sunsite/system/Misc/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz

Maybe there is a newer one; the fdutils package contains the mtools and
additional utilities.

Karl.