From: Terry Hancock (hancock_at_earthlink.net)
Date: Thu May 03 2001 - 16:29:32 EDT
Hi,
I just bought a ThinkPad 380ED and have been attempting
to install Debian Linux on it.
I'm mostly struggling with getting ALSA sound to work on
it, but the thing that's bugging me the most right now
is that the floppy drive doesn't seem to be set up right.
I'm using the boot prompt argument "floppy=thinkpad"
which I assume is appropriate here, but in fact it doesn't
seem to affect my results:
If I stick an MSDOS floppy into it it seems to work, but
if I try to make a filessystem on it with mkfs, I get:
$ mkfs -tmsdos /dev/fd0
mkfs.msdos 2.5 (07 Jan 2000)
/dev/fd0: Device not configured
It's a floppy. What's to configure? And if I were
going to configure it, what would I use to do that?
I thought maybe this was a BIOS thing, but there
doesn't seem to be any controls for the floppy
drive in the BIOS setup screen, which has cool
hummingbird graphics, but not much that you actually
need. :) Sorry for the sarcasm, but I'm a little
miffed with this thing right now!
Seriously, any advice would be greatly appreciated,
thanks!
-- Terry Hancock hancock_at_earthlink.net
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