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there is probably another post about this, i just can't find it on unix.com or google. basically, i am trying to make a boot floppy via CLI/terminal. the problem is that i use an external drive. when i do the first couple of steps, i get rejected. when i do the mounting and unmounting, all the sites tell me to use 'fd0'. it never works for me, im a newbee, correct me if im wrong, isn't fd0 for an internal floppy drive?

some one know the coding to make a boot floppy for Ubuntu, Kubuntu, or DreamLinux?

if you need me to post any info like directories of the drives on my box, just tell me.

fd0 would typically be the first internal floppy, yes. Guessing where the floppy will end up on your system is a challenge, though. Is this an USB floppy? What are you using to access it? (/media/something if you're on Ubuntu, I guess?)

Do you see promising messages in /var/log/syslog when you attach or detach the drive?

Curious to hear that somebody really tries to use floppies in this day and age. Are you sure the machine is able to boot off that floppy drive? A Flash USB would sound a lot less frustrating, they're more expensive than floppies of course but the form factor is nice and you can plug it in anywhere you see a USB port.

yea. i would use a usb, but the money issue is huge with me. i dont know if im allowed to say this because of the rules and all, but since im in high school, the money isn't what you would call flowing into my pockets. i have a 64mb and a 128mb flash drive. the reason i use floppies is that i can label the outside so i know what it is and the fact that im not going to plug it in to another computer by accident and mess it up.

the drive directory of the external floppy is "/media/disk/" and on ubuntu file browser when u see the directories above the info, it changes to "1.5 MB Media"

and when i was looking at "/var/log/syslog/"(and yes it did look promising, im going to add it in a new post) it was added as "/dev/sdb"

and you might get a kick out of this. i took an unused floppy and did something a normal user probably wouldn't do. i made it into over 14 different partitions. never give a kid the "sudo" and a terminal. :-)

so my question would be for the process of making a boot disk via terminal, should i change the fd0 with "disk"?

this is the section of "/var/log/syslog" containing the part concerning the floppy


May 13 19:55:01 texas1 NetworkManager: <debug> [1210722901.306471] nm_hal_device_added(): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_57b_0_noserial_if0_scsi_host').
May 13 19:55:01 texas1 NetworkManager: <debug> [1210722901.309436] nm_hal_device_added(): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_57b_0_noserial_if0_scsi_host_scsi_device_lun0').
May 13 19:55:02 texas1 kernel: [ 6790.841686] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 2880 512-byte hardware sectors (1 MB)
May 13 19:55:02 texas1 kernel: [ 6790.857665] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
May 13 19:55:02 texas1 kernel: [ 6790.857676] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 46 94 00
May 13 19:55:02 texas1 kernel: [ 6790.857683] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
May 13 19:55:02 texas1 kernel: [ 6790.937679] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 2880 512-byte hardware sectors (1 MB)
May 13 19:55:02 texas1 kernel: [ 6790.953652] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
May 13 19:55:02 texas1 kernel: [ 6790.953667] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 46 94 00
May 13 19:55:02 texas1 kernel: [ 6790.953674] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
May 13 19:55:02 texas1 kernel: [ 6790.953687] sdb:
May 13 19:55:02 texas1 kernel: [ 6791.220119] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
May 13 19:55:02 texas1 kernel: [ 6791.220231] sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
May 13 19:55:02 texas1 NetworkManager: <debug> [1210722902.413470] nm_hal_device_added(): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_57b_0_noserial_if0_scsi_host_scsi_device_lun0_scsi_generic').
May 13 19:55:16 texas1 NetworkManager: <debug> [1210722916.830337] nm_hal_device_added(): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_Y_E_DATA_USB_Floppy_Drive').
May 13 19:55:24 texas1 NetworkManager: <debug> [1210722924.187638] nm_hal_device_added(): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_part_1_size_1474560').
May 13 19:55:27 texas1 hald: mounted /dev/sdb on behalf of uid 1000

You should use /dev/sdb instead of /dev/fd0.