[Intrepid] Floppy - was Re: (unknown)

Mario Vukelic mario.vukelic at dantian.org
Wed Nov 26 07:35:06 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 15:23 -0800, NoOp wrote:
> Ummm... if you click on that you will receive an error msg _unless_
> you modprobe floppy first. Now I could be wrong as my Intrepid was
> upgraded/downgraded from a well working Hardy (with floppy support),
> so perhaps a clean install of Intrepid work without doing 'modeprobe
> floppy' first. Does yours work?

My Intrepid is also a Hardy-upgrade. When I start gfloppy from the menu,
I get "Cannot initialize device: Unable to open any device, formatting
cannot continue". Which is not surprising, as indeed I do not have a
drive. Sorry, I'm not much help here.





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