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I've got an old Acer 100Mhz job that seems to suffer a similar, or possibly the same problem. Sometimes /dev/fd0 works, others it just plain refuses to do anything at all. I've found that on the odd occasion when it refuses to work, using the complete devicename (/dev/fd0H1440, for example) works well. Don't ask me what that's all about - as far as I am aware, /dev/fd0 should be symlinked to your actual devicename, so it should work exactly the same. However, in my case the above sometimes works. Just a thought. > I added two NIC's to a working Mdk8.2 box (the headless box that I brought to > the Plymouth meeting). It's an old Pentium1 and doesn't get on well with > PCI/USB. > So, the cards wouldn't work. I tried ifconfig and netconf to no avail. > I thought about using Knoppix to simulate installing a new distro - in the > hope that it would detect the cards and illuminate my problem. BIOS offers > boot from CDROM but it refused - motherboard obviously ignores BIOS settings > on this one because the drive itself is not a problem. OK, mount the CD > anyway and read the README for info on boot floppies. > > Problem: > dd if=./boot-en.img of=/dev/fd0 > /dev/fd0 does not exist > > Guh? > > So now I had no Knoppix, no NIC's and no floppy. I figured out that the > problem with /dev/fd0 is that the I/O address appears to be in use. > > $ dmesg | grep floppy > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M > floppy0: Floppy io-port 0x03f7 in use > ide-floppy driver 0.97 > > How do I fix that?? > > $ mount /mnt/floppy > mount: /dev/fd0: unknown device > > And yes, there is a floppy in the drive - it's the Knoppix boot floppy that it > booted from about 10minutes ago. > > I had to get the one ISA NIC working, ftp the boot image to another machine > and create the boot floppy from there. The first floppy failed to boot with > more I/O errors but I eventually got it working with a second. > > It all boiled down to an Advanced setting in the BIOS that was assigning IRQ's > ONLY to ISA cards. (Which is why I've had problems with PCI in the past, > Duh!) > > (Why 3 NIC's? One for a fixed IP for home LAN use, one for DHCP to use if I > need to connect to a different network and have an IP,route etc assigned and > one because I had a card spare.) > -- Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. -- Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.