On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Stefan Palm wrote: > I've just installed debian (kernel 2.0.29) on an IBM ThinkPad 360 which > neither has a CD-ROM nor a network connection (yet). > Therefore I wanted to use "dselect" with the floppy drive (/dev/fd0 - > msdos), but when I try to install new *.deb-files I get the following error > message: > > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 sector 0 > mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device > > Does anybody what's going wrong here? > TIA > > Stefan
IBM Thinkpads have some kind of weird floppy controller and you need to add "floppy=thinkpad" to your lilo or loadlin command. At least, that's what people have said...it doesn't seem to help on my 380ED. --Norris -- Norris Preyer (541) 962-3310 (office) Physics Program (541) 962-3873 (fax) Eastern Oregon University [EMAIL PROTECTED] La Grande, OR 97850 http://physics.eou.edu/npreyer.html finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP key -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
