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Posted: July 21 2007,17:54 QUOTE

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.
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Posted: July 21 2007,18:20 QUOTE

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..

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Posted: July 23 2007,02:02 QUOTE

Thank you very much. If I do this once will it remember this setting every time I boot?
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Posted: July 23 2007,08:39 QUOTE

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

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Posted: July 23 2007,23:09 QUOTE

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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