/dev/fd0 not configured?

["Oscar D. Knight" <odk@cs.cs.appstate.edu>]

Hello Everyone, 

I'm trying to install Debian Linux on a PS/2 Model 35sx, w/ 8Meg RAM and
40Meg hd.  I know this is a VERY small and slow machine.  I want to use
it as a print server.  I've researched it both on the web and looked, this
machine has an AT bus.  As you might have guessed it does not have
a CD-ROM, and at this point it would be difficult to get one attached.

Now the problem, when I get to the point of "Installing Operating
System Kernel and Modules" it seems that the install script tries to
mount the Rescue disk.  It looks like the mount fails.  I get an error
message box, and lower on the screen there is a message "/dev/fd0:
Device not configured".

Any help would be much appreciated!!!  Thanks in advance!!!

More details follow:

The Rescue disk that says it's ver 2.0.  I tried the regular and 
tecra flavors with the same results.

I've tried mounting the disk by hand and here are the results:

 # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy
 mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device

 # mount /dev/fd0 /floppy
 mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device

 # ls -l /dev/fd0
 brw-rw---- 1 0    0     2,  0  Jun 23 22:50  /dev/fd0

===

Also, with a Rescue disk that say ver 1.x the interaction is 
different.  It gets to the same point, "Install Operating Sys..."
but it can't read the install script:

  Installing from the rescue floppy...
  ./install.sh: Can't open ./install.sh

I also tried mounting that Rescue disk by hand:

 # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy
 end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0
 mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device

 # mount /dev/fd0 /floppy
 end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0
 end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0
 mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
 
Thanks in advance!
odk
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