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. -- /\o Aaron M Matteson - http://cryptosystem.us /\/ /\ Real programmers don't document. If it was hard to write, / \ it should be hard to understand! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- /~\ The ASCII Ribbon Campaign Against HTML Email! \ / X All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander / \ are lost --jrr tolkien
