Bug 3908 - Can't make boot diskette with LS-120 superdisk (Installer hangs!)
Summary: Can't make boot diskette with LS-120 superdisk (Installer hangs!)
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: installer
Version: 6.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Lawrence
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-07-06 06:37 UTC by bizjak
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-07-07 17:13:47 UTC
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Description bizjak 1999-07-06 06:37:24 UTC 
My computer has only LS-120 SuperDisk IDE ATAPI floppy disk
drive. When I want to make a boot diskette (when asked by
installer) installer hangs, because there is no /dev/fd0
device.

However, answering "no" to above mentioned question,
installation continues with no other problems at all.

There should be some sort of warning, that installer could
not make boot diskette on /dev/fd. Eventualy - installer
should make boot floppy on /dev/hdX

This bug can also affect other ATAPI connected floppy
drives, ZIP drives and drives, connected thru parallel port.

Hope you will find this bug report useful!
Comment 1 Jay Turner 1999-07-07 17:13:59 UTC 
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 106 ***
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