Re: F13 install problem (/dev/fd0 error)

2010-05-29 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 21:45:13 -0500, Dale J. Chatham d...@chatham.org wrote: OK, I was an idiot. I took about 20 minutes yesterday looking for a way to disable the floppy. Today, it jumped out at me. Doh! I might suggest that timing out the attempt to query a floppy and moving on

Re: F13 install problem (/dev/fd0 error)

2010-05-29 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Bruno Wolff III br...@wolff.to writes: On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 21:45:13 -0500, Dale J. Chatham d...@chatham.org wrote: OK, I was an idiot. I took about 20 minutes yesterday looking for a way to disable the floppy. Today, it jumped out at me. Doh! I might suggest that timing out the

Re: F13 install problem (/dev/fd0 error)

2010-05-29 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 11:54:25 -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wolfgang.ruppre...@gmail.com wrote: Are floppies still used by most people? I can't recall the last time I tried to use one. If the floppy hardware is really so broken that it causes hangs, wouldn't it be better to just not

F13 install problem (/dev/fd0 error)

2010-05-28 Thread dale
I cannot get FC13 to install. I get a repeating /dev/fd0 error, which sorta makes sense since the machine doesn't have a floppy. However, it never gets past the error. Has anyone seen this one? Help!!! :) Dale -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: F13 install problem (/dev/fd0 error)

2010-05-28 Thread jack craig
On 05/28/2010 11:42 AM, d...@chatham.org wrote: I cannot get FC13 to install. I get a repeating /dev/fd0 error, which sorta makes sense since the machine doesn't have a floppy. However, it never gets past the error. Has anyone seen this one? Help!!! :) Dale In your bios

Re: F13 install problem (/dev/fd0 error)

2010-05-28 Thread dale
It's a relatively new ASUS motherboard, actually two of them. I looked and looked and found nowhere. On 05/28/2010 11:42 AM, d...@chatham.org wrote: I cannot get FC13 to install. I get a repeating /dev/fd0 error, which sorta makes sense since the machine doesn't have a floppy. However, it

Re: F13 install problem (/dev/fd0 error)

2010-05-28 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht writes: d...@chatham.org writes: I cannot get FC13 to install. I get a repeating /dev/fd0 error, which sorta makes sense since the machine doesn't have a floppy. However, it never gets past the error. Has anyone seen this one? Yes. Same here on my Asus M3A78T (AMD)

Re: F13 install problem (/dev/fd0 error)

2010-05-28 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Sam Varshavchik mr...@courier-mta.com writes: Go into your BIOS setup. See if your BIOS believes that there's a floppy drive hiding somewhere, and disable it. Ok, I just did that. I suppose it will take till f14 to see if that fixes things. It is curious that all other kernels (and we are

Re: F13 install problem (/dev/fd0 error)

2010-05-28 Thread Dale J. Chatham
OK, I was an idiot. I took about 20 minutes yesterday looking for a way to disable the floppy. Today, it jumped out at me. Doh! I might suggest that timing out the attempt to query a floppy and moving on might be a wise for the developers to do :) Dale On 05/28/2010 02:45 PM, jack

Re: F13 install problem (/dev/fd0 error)

2010-05-28 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/29/2010 08:15 AM, Dale J. Chatham wrote: OK, I was an idiot. I took about 20 minutes yesterday looking for a way to disable the floppy. Today, it jumped out at me. Doh! I might suggest that timing out the attempt to query a floppy and moving on might be a wise for the developers