Floppy formatting.
I installed debian on this compaq 1692 laptop a couple of weeks ago and it
went very well. With driver from linmodems I now have the internal modem
going o.k. etc.
Last weekend I tried to install woody onto a hp 8805 desktop and it is not
booting properly. I think it is something to do with the s3 savage graphics.
I downloadeda driver from a site, but was unable to format a floppy properly
to transfer it to the other p.c.. I tried using both Kfloppy and Gfloppy and
I always endup with different amounts of free space on the many disks I
tried. They all format fine under windows.
Sometimes I end up with say 850KB after formatting and with the same disk if
I retry I might get 1MB free after formatting. But irrespective of what
amount it formats to as soon as I put the disk into the other machine it
says the floppy has crc errors and wont read anything off the floppies. Both
P.C.'s have ext2 file system.?
When I installed woody, when it got to the stage that it was almost ready to
reboot and and asked me if I wished to create a boot floppy, it said after
creating the boot floppy:
"add to /etc/driveprm
drive0:deviation=1120"
but later I could not find any file of the name driveprn under the directory
of /etc/ ?
Where do I find driveprn and doesanyone think it will make any difference?
The command I used to format was: mkfs -t ext2 /dev/fd0 1400.
Thanks
Mike
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