Hi,

I downloaded


http://www.tux.org/pub/distributions...2.0.103.tar.gz

unpacked it and followed the GNU/Linux installation procedure and ran

./install.s

but I got

About to fdformat /dev/fd0u1722
/dev/fd0u1722: No such device or address
FAILED fdformat error Enter to continue...

# my environment: a laptop with a usb-floppy drive
# kernel 2.6.15

root@agnellus:/home/chen/hda3/scr3/tomsrtbt-2.0.103# mount -t msdos
/dev/sda /sda
root@agnellus:/home/chen/hda3/scr3/tomsrtbt-2.0.103# ls /sda
autoexec.bat command.com config.sys drvspace.bin io.sys msdos.sys
root@agnellus:/home/chen/hda3/scr3/tomsrtbt-2.0.103# umount /sda

root@agnellus:/home/chen/hda3/scr3/tomsrtbt-2.0.103# ls -l
/dev/fd0u1722
brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 60 Jul 23 2004 /dev/fd0u1722
root@agnellus:/home/chen/hda3/scr3/tomsrtbt-2.0.103# dd count=1 <
/dev/fd0u1722 > /tmp/2
bash: /dev/fd0u1722: No such device or address

I then looked into the script install.s, and found that
my /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/ is empty. Ok, so I tried

apt-get install altgcc libc5-altdev

but that did not help.

What am I missing? Some kernel options of what?

My usb-floppy works; libc5 is installed;

Thanks a lot in advance for any hint!

kolmogolov@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I downloaded
>
>
> http://www.tux.org/pub/distributions...2.0.103.tar.gz
>
> unpacked it and followed the GNU/Linux installation procedure and ran

When I did that, I found the following in the directory where I did it:

[~/TomsReboot]$ ls -l
total 2896
2949120 Jul 4 2003 tomsrtbt-2.0.103.ElTorito.288.img
11585 Jul 4 2003 tomsrtbt.FAQ

I then told cdrecord to copy that to a CD-ROM and had no trouble. Of course,
a CD-ROM is much bigger than a floppy, but some day they will be needed for
that, and besides, CD-ROMs last longer than floppies.

I imagine a dd -i tomsrtbt-2.0.103.ElTorito.288.img -o /dev/floppy (if you
have that device) would work.
>
> ./install.s
>
> but I got
>
> About to fdformat /dev/fd0u1722

Oh! Maybe it will not fit on a 1.440 Meg floppy anymore.

> /dev/fd0u1722: No such device or address
> FAILED fdformat error Enter to continue...

Does your system even have a /dev/fd0u1722 device? Mine 2.6 system has
these, but newer distributions may have less.

$ ls -l /dev/fd0*
brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 0 Jan 24 10:38 /dev/fd0
[snip]
brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 28 Jan 24 10:38 /dev/fd0u1440
[snip]
>
> # my environment: a laptop with a usb-floppy drive
> # kernel 2.6.15
>
> root@agnellus:/home/chen/hda3/scr3/tomsrtbt-2.0.103# mount -t msdos
> /dev/sda /sda
> root@agnellus:/home/chen/hda3/scr3/tomsrtbt-2.0.103# ls /sda
> autoexec.bat command.com config.sys drvspace.bin io.sys msdos.sys
> root@agnellus:/home/chen/hda3/scr3/tomsrtbt-2.0.103# umount /sda
>
> root@agnellus:/home/chen/hda3/scr3/tomsrtbt-2.0.103# ls -l
> /dev/fd0u1722
> brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 60 Jul 23 2004 /dev/fd0u1722
> root@agnellus:/home/chen/hda3/scr3/tomsrtbt-2.0.103# dd count=1 <
> /dev/fd0u1722 > /tmp/2
> bash: /dev/fd0u1722: No such device or address
>
> I then looked into the script install.s, and found that
> my /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/ is empty. Ok, so I tried
>
> apt-get install altgcc libc5-altdev
>
> but that did not help.
>
> What am I missing? Some kernel options of what?
>
> My usb-floppy works; libc5 is installed;

Do you have to do something special for usb floppies? Mine is a regular one
plugged into the floppy controller on the M.B.

The only usb device I have on that machine is the printer and it is in

$ ls -l /dev/usb/lp*
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 180, 0 Jan 24 21:54 /dev/usb/lp0

Maybe you should find the real USB floppy and diddle that script to use that.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance for any hint!
>


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On 25 Jan 2006 00:38:01 -0800, kolmogolov@gmail.com
<kolmogolov@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I downloaded
>
>
> http://www.tux.org/pub/distributions...2.0.103.tar.gz
>
> unpacked it and followed the GNU/Linux installation procedure and ran
>
> ./install.s
>
> but I got
>
> About to fdformat /dev/fd0u1722
> /dev/fd0u1722: No such device or address
> FAILED fdformat error Enter to continue...
>
> # my environment: a laptop with a usb-floppy drive
> # kernel 2.6.15
>
usb floppy drives might not be capable of formatting to more than 1.4
megabytes. You may just have to settle for a tomsrtbt CD.



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On 25 Jan 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<1138178281.177240.49050@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups. com>, kolmogolov@gmail.com
wrote:

>About to fdformat /dev/fd0u1722
>/dev/fd0u1722: No such device or address
> FAILED fdformat error Enter to continue...
>
># my environment: a laptop with a usb-floppy drive
># kernel 2.6.15

And what do you see in the /var/log/messages relating to floppies? The
'fd0' through 'fd3' floppies were meant to be hanging off the old floppy
controller...

Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M, fd1 is 1.2M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077

while a USB floppy is a different breed of cat, and uses different major
and minor numbers.

>bash: /dev/fd0u1722: No such device or address

That's saying there isn't the hardware, not that the device directory
listing isn't there.

>I then looked into the script install.s, and found that
>my /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/ is empty. Ok, so I tried

[ -d /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib ]&&LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib

> apt-get install altgcc libc5-altdev
>
>but that did not help.

Yeah, that's a compatibility function for older systems, and has nothing to
do with your problem.

Old guy