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Mandrake 6 can't detect my floppy drive

#1 User is offline   bobbinbrisco 

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Posted 15 September 2002 - 05:25 AM

i boot mandrake from the cd and everything goes well until the end of the installation when i want to use a floppy to boot to Mandrake instead of using LILO. the problem is that Mandrake can't detect my floppy: it tries to write data to the floppy drive but nothing happens.
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Posted 15 September 2002 - 08:21 AM

Are you able to read/write to the floppy from other operating systems? Does the floppy led stay lit? Have you tried replacing the cable? Just some general thoughts. Let me know how you make out.
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Posted 15 September 2002 - 10:38 AM

my floppy runs perfectly normal under win2k, which is on the same computer as the one i'm trying to install mandrake
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Posted 15 September 2002 - 07:52 PM

Definately strange... And you're trying to install Mandrake 6? If I might ask, do you need that older version?
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