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With help from this mailing list, I have installed Linux (1.2.9) and
X-windows on a TP 755C. In the case of Linux 1.2.9, I had to *make*
it after pulling it off the sunsite ftp site so that I could have the
pcmcia card services package developed by David Hinds. The March 95
InfoMagic CD I have been using for the installation only has 1.2.1.
However, I have noticed that Linux (1.2.9 and even 1.2.1) have the
following problem(s)
(1) Linux does not properly mount a msdos floppy with the command
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
In fact I cannot mount any type of floppy file system with Linux
(2) nor do the mtools commands such as mdir or mcopy work
Of course, when I used dos to rawrite the boot and root disk from
a Linux Distribution CDROM, I managed to boot from them, but otherwise
I have not been able to use the floopy. I have no problems with a
scsi CDROM nor a scsi HD.
The following is are some examples of errors I get
bash# fdformat /dev/fd0
Double-sided, 80 tracks, 18 sec/track. Total capacity 1440 kB.
Formatting ... 1
ioctl(FDFMTTRK): Invalid argument
bash# fdformat /dev/fd0
ioctl(FDGETPRM): No such device
bash# mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt
mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
bash# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
Has anybody else run into this problem and found a solution?
- Allen Moy