On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 07:34:51PM +0900, Kai Martens wrote: > The external floppy drive that came with the laptop is connected to a USB > connector on the box via a special SONY cable... > > Any ideas how to cure this or how to work around it? (No more windoze > anywhere on my disk :-) ... You need to make a custom kernel with support for usb floppies. As far as I know, USB floppies are not supported currently. You may boot from it because Linux doesn't yet intervene there, but after booting it looks to linux like the machine does not have a working floppy. You need an install method that uses CD-ROM or network Sorry, can't be more specific/helpful now. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the "Plug" almost always works. --unknown source
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