Other Help Topics :: Saving to floppyS

I am quite new at linux and DSL, but I have been wanting to learn for years. I finally got my hands on a spare machine (an IBM 380ED Thinkpad, its not much), the only version of linux that it can run is DSL. But after installing I can not get it to write files to a floppy disk.

What I am trying is:
-Putting the disk into the drive
-Opening the mount tool and mounting the floppy
-Saving a text file to the /floppy drive

This will not write to the floppy.

I have tried some tips I found browsing the web and get various error messages, unfortunately I am in a different city from that machine when my membership to this forum arrived so I will post that all later. I believe it was something about /fd0 not found in some file in the /dev directory.

Thank you for your time in reading my post.

Old Thinkpads used to have inverted floppy drives, which normally was the first track would be the last in those drives.. Boot using code floppy=thinkpad to get it understand your floppy drive..

Thank you very much. If I do this once will it remember this setting every time I boot?

depending on the install.. If you boot from the livecd, you'll have to type that every boot..

Now I am getting an error that says

"error: mount: relocation error: mount: undefined symbol: blkid_known_fstype"

I tried booting by typing

dsl vga=787 floppy=thinkpad

can I not include the vga settings when I boot?

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