A few notes on using a USB floppy drive with tomsrtbt. I have a YE Data model YD-8U12 floppy drive. Note that not all USB floppy drives work with Linux due to violating the USB specs. The YE Data models work with Linux and Macs.
These notes will not help you to boot to tomsrtbt on a USB floppy. The YE Data floppy does not support either the 1.7MB format tomrtbt uses or the 2.88MB format. Here is how to use it as a storage device once you have booted to tomsrbt. First, get the following modules. My preferred way of doing this is to mount Steve Brown's tomsrtbt ISO image (http://userpages.umbc.edu/~sbrown7/), and pull them from there. You need usbcore, one of usb-[uo]hci, and usb-storage. Copy them to /tmp, cd there, and decompress (bzip -d) 'em. Put a floppy diskette in the drive and plug it in to the computer. Next, insmod usbcore.o. Then try the two usb-[uo]hci.o modules. Most motherboards will use one or the other; if one doesn't work, the other should. Then insmod usb-storage.o. That one takes a while (at least on my ancient laptop). You should hear two different accesses to the floppy, see a message about "USB mass storage support registered," and get the prompt back. My USB floppy shows up on /dev/sda (not /dev/sda1;there are no partitions on a floppy), yours may show up elsewhere depending on what SCSI devices you already have when you do this. So I mount it as follows: mkdir /floppy mount /dev/sda /floppy You should see a complaint about not finding an ext3 file system. Since what you have is a FAT or VFAT file system, this is normal. ls /floppy should show the contents of the floppy. If you want long file names and other Windows 9X compatibility, use: mount -t vfat /dev/sda /floppy Don't forget to umount before pulling the floppy diskette. Enjoy. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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