[ltp] Problems with Floppy Drive

Jason MacDermott linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Sun, 7 Apr 2002 21:54:31 -0700


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I am a Linux & ThinkPad newbie - I have successfully installed Debian =
2.2 on a model 365CS (I think) ThinkPad.  Now, the only way I can get =
Debian packages onto this machine (until I get a PCMCIA Network card =
that can be configured for it) is by floppy.

No big deal, I thought - but even though I can mount a WinDOS floppy, =
and even "ls" is and see the files, every time I try to copy anything, =
it fails.

Is there a known problem with the ThinkPad floppy?  I can't figure out =
why this would be happening when it installed off the same drive!

Thanks,
Jay

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