Post subject: mount /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
Hello. I would like to start by saying that I usually use Linux. But I don't consider
myself a Linux geek either, since I'm no administrator and only deal
with problems that appear on my home pc, on which I installed a SuSE
9.2. Also, I don't know too much of that hardware stuff that
administrators seem to know. But I've got this cute little laptop that
my dad gave me, it's an IBM Thinkpad 755 and it only has 20 MB of RAM and it's a 486 with a floppy drive, no cd-rom drive.
I figured I could try installing Debian with maybe, X window with a tiny wm. SO I've installed the base system of Debian (from the 20 floppy disks) on
my Thinkpad, and got the base system working with users and stuff. The next thing I would like to do is install oher packages but since I don't have them on the hard drive of the Thinkpad (and have no possibility of a network connection from that laptop, or a connection with another computer), i'm thinking of taking them from the floppies and putting them on the harddrive. But when I try mounting a floppy disk it says:
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 64
/dev/fd0: Input/output error
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
Did I go wrong somewhere at the installation? Could someone explain me
what the error means? Since I did all the isntall using the floppy drive and the floppy is recognized by my SuSE 9.2 on my pc, could it really be a bad floppy or floppy drive?
Regards
Becky
Last edited by lil_becky; 01-18-2005 at 01:27 AM.
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