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  • From: Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL3-21fd.zip download problem
  • Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 18:28:20 -0400 (EDT)

On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > I also have a floppy drive on a desktop that keeps telling
> > me there are bad sectors on every disk. Another computer
> > formats them 100%. Should I change the first drive to
> > another?
>
> I would.

We have about 20 extras and will try that, and check each drive on the
floppy disk that this drive thought had 80 bad sectors.

>
> > I cannot replace the drive in this laptop, can I?
>
> Perhaps.
>
> > At least not without buying a new one.

The one time we tried to replace a 286 laptop drive, the other one was too
large. Do they come in many different sizes for 486 laptops?

>
> I thought you had several dead laptops. If you are lucky
> you might find one with a floppy drive you can use. The
> problem with laptops is they are not easy to fix. Getting
> at some components can be fiendishly difficult. It's not
> worth killing a working laptop trying to install a new FD.

Probably no worse than fixing a small portabe tape deck or CD player.
My partner once repaired an XT floppy drive by replacing a belt in it.
Does the alignment go bad because parts wear out, or might it need
cleaning or lubricating?

> > software test for alignment?
>
> Superformat (Linux) gives you an alignment reading when it
> formats floppies. I think it is available in Slackware.

Thanks. We will test a bunch of floppy drives and keep the best ones
rather than just recycling the ones that don't fit on the shelf.
What would a good or acceptible reading be?

>
> > I got it working without that by typing cd /etc/pcmcia
> > and then start. I don't see a PCMCIA line in /etc/rc in
> > BL3-floppy.
>
> BL3-floppy runs in a ramdisk, so editing /etc/rc is pointless
> until you install it to HD. IIRC install-to-hd creates an
> /etc/rc that includes the PCMCIA line.

That makes sense.

I have been copying over resolv.conf and eznet.conf from the second BL3
disk and could do the same with rc on the computer without a working hard
disk. I don't think that your requirements for BL3 list a hard drive,
just a motherboard, floppy drive and RAM (and video of course). There is
probably also some way to save changes to a new disk image (disk1.img).

>
> Cheers,
> Steven
>
>
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