Thanks for the info. I am currently using an Iomega USB floppy and having no more problems.
Brad > -----Original Message----- > From: Soeren Kuklau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 6:22 AM > To: Brad Erdman > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Unattended] Booting the unattended CD on a > diskless laptop > > > > On Freitag, Juli 11, 2003, at 09:56 Uhr, Brad Erdman wrote: > > > Hi, > > I am running into the exact same problem now, with the > Inspiron 8500. > > However, I am a little confused about the "No large Disk > support". I > > think > > this will not affect me as I just create 1 large partition anyway. > > And exactly that is the problem. When creating a virtual hard disk > rather than a virtual floppy disk, there appears to be a bug > with fdisk > (thus triggered during partitioning) that renders it incapable of > creating > 8 Gigs partitions. > > > Also, has anyone tried adding a USB floppy and seeing if that fixes > > things? > > Yes! Quote from an earlier post (July 5th): > > > I had a chance yesterday to try. I turned the test laptop off, > > connected a USB floppy drive, turned it back on and tried > to boot off > > the unattended CD: this time, it mounted the floppy image > just fine. > > No BIOS upgrade, no changing any settings :-) > > > > Thus, I guess that the BIOS does have (generic) floppy drivers, but > > only enables them when a floppy drive - internal or external - is > > actually present. I couldn't find an option to force-load those > > drivers. > > > > Just plugging the floppy in to each of those laptops would work for > > me, though. > > The drive used was an Imation SuperDisk USB drive (those failed 120 > Megs floppies in the late 90's). > > I suppose that any kind of USB floppy drive would work, though. > > Good luck! > > -- > Sören 'Chucker' Kuklau > <http://www.chucker.rasdi.net/> > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more. Download & eval WebKing and get a free book. www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps1 _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
