Thanks Mark and David D. I found out about the disk image formatting the hard way I guess. I also find out that once it is set up for 1.440 you really cant do much to change it. So I got some image files on the cd (oxygen) that were self contained and did not need to look for packages and services from the cd. Those images were formatted to 1.68M (actually when I look at the file size in windows explorer it says 1.62M max). They do work fine. And in order to back up any config changes that I make I load the cd first and let it back up on on the floppy. It makes things a lot quicker since the cd has a nice interface. Hope that may help someone out there.
Moving on...One more thing (contribution) I have to say is that for anyone using the 3com905 nics they should look for the module 3c59x.o instead of the 3c905.o for their cards. It does not seems intuitive but I read and tried it and my oxygen box does sees both my network cards now. the new technical/philosophical issue is that: on my oxygen box I gave the eth0 card the IP address of one machine (A) and I assigned a "picked" IP address to the eth1 card that goes to the hub. this hub is supposed to serve many internal machines that will use the router as their port to the internet. since the original machine (A) had a fixed IP, I did not enable dhcp on the router. So I am thinking that I should pick and choose the ip address of the machines behind the router myself. Does that sound right? I will do some more research and fill you all up. Regards, -M >From: Mark Plowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] LRP Oxygen CD and floppy disk boot question >Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 11:18:26 +0100 (CET) > >malik, > > > From: "malik menzong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 04:26:23 +0000 > > ><snip> > > > > 1)Once Im at the root I am prompted to choose b/w some options to >configure > > the router. I found out how I can change and move out of each file that >is > > presented to me, but when trying to save it (back up) it comes with the > > following error > > end_request, I/O error dev 02:2c(floppy), sector 19 > > end_request, I/O error dev 02:2c(floppy), sector 20 > > At first I thought it was a bad floppy but when I tried some brand new >disk > > the error persisted and nothing got copied. Does that sound like a >common > > thing? Is it the disk? should I make a image file from the cd first? > >A normal 1.4 M Bytes floppy has 18 sectors per side. > >Seeing mention of sectors 19 and 20 in the error message, it's >probable that you forgot to format the floppy for 1.68 M Bytes (20 >sectors per side) > >Can't help about the rest I am afraid. > > >Greetings > >Mark > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leaf-user mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
