Adam Vazquez Kb2Jpd wrote:
Rafe wrote:
--- Ken Schneider <suse-list@bout-tyme.net> wrote:
On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 10:29 -0700, Rafe wrote:
I did not know about the floppy= parameters -
thanks
for pointing it out. I still get the error:
"Boot failed: please change disks and press a key
to
continue."
Pressing a key does nothing. I goggled the
floppy=
parameter and tried ALL the possible settings
-same
error every time. I even tried floppy=debug and
got
nothing new. I tried all the above with and
without
quotes "". I am going to buy a second new box of floppies.
The
Office Depot near me only sells their brand and I
may
need better floppies. Has anyone else had to
switch
floppy brands to get this to work? The floppies
pass
verify on my linux box, but that does not mean
they
are prefect. I seem to remember that the device drivers for floppies sometimes will try to read several times before giving up and maybe on the
setup
disk every thing has to work the first time.
Rafe
Please don't top post. How are you creating the floppies? If using linux dd would be the command and if using windows rawwrite would be used.
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
"The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
Sorry about the top posting.
I am using linux to create the floppies:
dd if=bootdisk1 of=/dev/fd0
I am trying memorex floppies right now, but still no luck.
Rafe
It is time for you to hit the Web "linux laptops" on Google:
There are several sites that focus on Sony Laptops.
Search for the answer on Google and I bet you will be able to get it to work.
Adam
http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ibm.html Go to the bottom of the page. Your computer is there as two listing for debian and redhat. Adam