Yeah, but can you actually create a bootdisk from directly within the
install program? This is probably where I, and most others, would use it
the most, considering that floppies and their replacements are basically
outdated for everything EXCEPT bootdisks.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Reser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 10:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] LS-120 drives??
> My LS120 works just fine under 7.2.
>
> On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 09:55:08PM -0400, Nate Coffey wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone had any luck with creating bootdisks, autoconfig disks,
> > etc. using a LS-120 (aka Superdisk) drive? I would like to be able
to
> > create these disks (especially from within the install), and it seems
> > to be working, but then I find out that the perl script fails because
> > it assumes that it should use /dev/fd0.... the thing that baffles me,
> > is that is correctly detects the drive as /dev/hdd, but yet doesn't
> > change any parameters for the perl scripts for making the bootdisk.
> >
> >
> >
> > I have been trying to use this LS-120 since 7.0 (which didn't even
> > detect the floppy as /dev/hdd) with no luck at all. I would hate to
> > hear that I have revert back to the ancient component known as the
> > 1.44MB floppy drive, which is terribly slow and limited.... or even
> > worse, use both a 1.44MB floppy drive alongside the LS-120 drive
> > (floppy drive replacement???.... hmmm.....)
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > ]-[EURRe�ia��h
>
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