Re: Floppy drive problem.

[John Foster <jfoster@augustmail.com>]

"N. Raghavendra" wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am a Debian newbie and have the following problem with my floppy drives.
> There are two of them: a 1.44 MB floppy drive and an unused 1.2 MB floppy
> drive.  In the BIOS setup I have configured the 1.44 MB drive as A: and
> the other floppy drive as B:. But Linux seems to reverse this order: it
> sees the 1.2 MB drive as the first floppy drive (/dev/fd0) and the 1.44 MB
> one as the second floppy drive (/dev/fd1).
> 
> One consequence of this is that at the end of installing Debian (hamm), I
> was unable to make a custom boot disk for my system, because when the
> installation program asked me to insert a blank floppy, I put a 1.44 MB
> floppy in the drive, and it said something like "Making boot floppy
> failed. Check that the floppy isn't write-protected and is in the correct
> drive". The same thing happened when I tried the mkboot command later on.
> 
> Is there a way of making Linux see my 1.44 MB drive as /dev/fd0 and the
> other one as /dev/fd1? I apologize in case this is an old question,
> already answered.
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Change the order in your bios setup. Linux will take it's que from the
bios.

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John Foster
AdVance-Computing Systems
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