Re: laptop without floopy...disable in kernel and boot cdrom

From: Aaron Matteson (fedora_at_cryptosystem.us)
Date: 03/02/04

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Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 14:51:46 -0800

    ronnie escobedo became daring and sent these 0.8K bytes,
    > I have a dell inspiron 5100 running fdc 1 and xp. My system does not come
    > with a floppy. So there are a few things I'd like to do:
    >
    > 1. How do I disable the floppy drive in the kernel? When I shut my laptop
    > down I get an error similar to:
    > "insmod floppy...failed"

    I have an inspiron 1100 with no floppy as well, to get around the
    modules i just added "alias floppy off" to my /etc/modules.conf. Also
    takes care of the insmod errors on boot.
     
    > 2. Since I do not have a floppy I'd like to create a boot disk on a cd and
    > I'd also like to put grub on cd. I've searched the net for about 2 months
    > trying to get a boot disk and grub on cds. Any help or links appreciated.

    I have found this handy on this topic:
    http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/floppy_image_on_cd.htm

    Good luck. 

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