Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 8 Feb 1997 23:11:22 +0000 (GMT) | From | Chris Evans <> | Subject | Floppy problem. |
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Hi,
As a favour for a friend I am installing Linux on her ancient 386SX... just to run console based things like (primarily) telnet. However, said machine is a PS/1.
Problem 1) (SOLVED) -- stupid IBM bios doesn't report proper disk geometry. lilo parameters fix this.
Problem 2) The moment it comes to load in the compressed image on the floppy, I get "I/O error on dev 02:00 sector 0" (or something similar). A search showed up a similar post by someone else a while back but it was not answered satisfactorily...
So, is there any way to get a floppy drive working under Linux on a PS/1 computer? Perhaps some floppy=really_quite_crap parameter I can give lilo?
Cheers, Chris.
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