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> > We are running Linux on an IBM ThinkPad 750Cs with a 2.88 Meg floppy > drive. I had no problem getting the machine to boot the Linux Slackware > 2.1 kernel (1.1.59) and installing all 75 (or so) diskettes via the > setup program. > > However, when I try to use the floppy drive to move other files onto the > machine (such as the PCMCIA drivers for the modem and ethernet card), I > cannot get the floppy drive to work properly. I have tried putting the > files on a DOS diskette and using mcopy, but I get disk I/O errors. I > also tried using "mount" but the kernel loses its sanity when I try to > copy files to the floppy (either it says the file system is read-only or > that /dev/fd0 is not a valid mount point). > > Does anyone have a clue as to how to fix this problem? It appears to be > something wrong with the driver for the 2.88 drive since our old version > of Linux which used a hacked floppy driver which told the kernel that > the 2.88 Meg drive was really a 1.44 Meg drive did not suffer from these > problems. > Hello Robert, IN fact, you can't run the vanilla slackware boot disks on 750 without a especially patched kernel version. Such a bootable disk is available on the net. I recommend you to read the html page from Ian Jackson at http://peipa.essex.ac.uk/html/linux-thinkpad.html and retrieved the boot disks from there. Best regards, -------------------------------------------------------------------- St'ephane ERANIAN | Email eranian@chorus.fr Universit'e PARIS VII | eranian@litp.ibp.fr LITP - Laboratoire d'Informatique | Th'eorique et Programmation | 2 place Jussieu | 75251 Paris cedex 05 | --------------------------------------------------------------------