At 09:45 AM 9/14/00 -0400, you wrote:
Sorry to reply to myself, but I've come to the conclusion after
further
testing that my floppy drive is 100% busted and I'm not going to
be able
to do anything useful off it. I also can't (practically) replace it.
Bugger!Go buy a new floppy drive - standard PC ones are $40 NZ (probably no more than $15 US)
However if this machine is a laptop a floppy will be expensive. I paid $450 NZ for a TI floppy drive last year. If this is the case, have you got a CD Rom drive that can boot? Or perhaps you can borrow a floppy drive for long enough to get things going. A friend here has a Toshiba Libretto with a PCMCIA floppy drive, perhaps that will boot in your machine.
Or as a last resort - use a 2.5" to 3.5" IDE adapter, take out the hard drive and boot it on a normal workstation.
Good luck ! (down with laptops) -- Criggie