On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Tom Oehser wrote:
>
> > Can anyone send me the make/model of a floppy
> > drive and details of the computer
> > that can boot a std 1440k but not 1722k?
>
> In my experience it is more of a QA issue than particular models.
>
> Certainly LS120 etc. will work with 1440 and fail with 1722.
>
> I have seen 2 identical external laptop drives where one could
> read track 82 and one couldn't.
>
> > The second part is this: how hard is it to
> > pare down the new Toms floppy to fit and work
> > on a std 1440k floppy? We won't need all the
>
> It is not hard. Just edit the settings.s and delete enough stuff.
>
> Have you considered bootable CD tomsrtbt?
The other option is to take the CD version, rip it apart and put it onto
two floppies. I do this for a Toshiba Libretto 'cause tomsrtbt hasn't
got a driver for it's PCMCIA floppy drive.
If you're interested they should be available at:
http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday/Linux-1.img
http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday/Linux-2.img
(I've done some other changes so these are not pure tomsrtbt though)
--
Rob. (Robert de Bath <robert$ @ debath.co.uk>)
<http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday>
