RE: Realtime sched and floppy (Was: Re: rawrite broken from DOS-box under W98? (Was: Re: thinkpad install prob))
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: karlheg@bittersweet.intra [mailto:karlheg@bittersweet.intra]On
>> Behalf Of Karl M. Hegbloom
>> Sent: Sunday, 21 May 2000 12:08 PM
>> To: rlyon01@ozemail.com.au
>> Cc: Robert Waldner; debian-user@lists.debian.org; Michael Skipper
>> Subject: Realtime sched and floppy (Was: Re: rawrite broken from DOS-box
>> under W98? (Was: Re: thinkpad install prob))
>>
>> Richard> It works correctly from the dos box in WIN98 second
>> Richard> edition. I wouldn't
>> Richard> recommend trying it while you have other application running.
>>
>> Linux has similar trouble under certain conditions.
>
>The motivation for my comment is that you don't want any application trying
>to access the drive apart from rawrite. You'll be suprised how often this
>can
>happen and it totally stuffs things up.
>
>Regards
>Richard
I had the original thinkpad problem. Turns out I was making the floppies
correctly (rawrite2 in plain DOS)--for some reason my TP didn't like
slink (or at least the source of those files). I have sucessfully installed
potato (16 floppies@1.44MB) and am now thoroughly and happily confused
(thanks to Gary in Wien for suggesting it!). I am resisting the urge to
query the list daily (actually I'm too busy this week to do so) and plan
to R all TFMs.
Related to another thread, has there been any discussion of a
newbie-list@debian? perhaps some of the more experienced folk could
rotate monitoring it. Just a thought. Thanks to all for allowing me to
learn a little through osmosis.
Mike Skipper
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