From: t90yuan@mp.cs.niu.edu (yuan tzeng) Subject: Re: Help: I can't access my Floppys! (to do sysinstall) Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 03:38:10 GMT
In article <1993May8.213536.17444@midway.uchicago.edu> jdbogan@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>I was tring to get mtools to compile, it complained, so I stoped and
>decided to do it later. Then when I tried to install X11, using sysinstall,
>it won't recognize my floppys. I tried rebooting, and I checked the physical
>connections, and they still won't go. The odd thing is that I can still
>mount them. I tried installing it, directing the sysinstall to the floppy
>as the device to use, and it still doesn't see it (When I press return to
>accnoledge that the floppy is there, it just ignores me, and goes back to
>the same prompt, without the light on the drive even going on.)
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>I have SLS (installed, and downloaded on the 1st), a 486DX50 VLB, with
>a IDE I/O [w/ floppy controller] 'UN-1072 Super I/O card'. The controller
>is NOT on the VLB. Thanks for any help.
>
> jdbogan@uchicago.edu
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Just to say that I encounter the same problem as you do. --yuan
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