[Leaplist] brkn krnl img [WAS] Floppy problem in Lenny - Debian

[Whit Hansell]

Hi Cecil,
Yeah it is a lot of time and effort for just a floppy but I'm like you 
in that way too - bull headed.   But I would really like to get it 
figured out because I would like to be able to use my data disks from my 
Sony Mavica camera which uses floppy disks as it's data medium.  I 
mentioned in an earlier post that I can use it and get access to the 
data but I have to reboot to my XP drive and then email the data to 
yahoo, reboot to Linux and download them from yahoo.  What a pain.  
Besides, it's just supposed to work.  Darn it.

TIA for your help, Cecil.  Much appreciated.
Whit


Cecil Hornbaker wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 22:34 -0400, Whit Hansell wrote:
>   
>> Richard, Phil, John, Aaron and Cecil,
>>     
>
> Sure a lot of time and effort to get a floppy working but I know I never
> want to give up on that kind of thing (bull headed).  I will be back
> home on Saturday and will have access to a lenny/sid system with floppy
> drive and with 2.6.21-2-k7 and 2.6.18-4-k7 kernels.  I can verify
> operation of the floppy and provide comparison information if needed.  I
> know the others have already done this but I can provide another data
> point if needed.
>
>   
>> Thanks so much for your help. And everyone else too. I'm giving up on 
>> this problem and going to come at it in a different way. The reason is 
>> that I think that for some reason my kernel is screwed up and I don't 
>> know what to do about it. I've done two dist-upgrades using aptitude and 
>> in the first one the next kernel that was supposed to be upgraded to 
>> ended up w. broken dependencies and was installed, but w. a notation of 
>> broken dependencies. Or so it seemed to state. Then I went back and did 
>> another dist-upgrade and it said because of the broken dependencies it 
>> would be removed and so I went ahead w. that. I then tried to
>>
>> brightsun:/# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0
>>     
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