laptop without floopy...disable in kernel and boot cdrom

[ronnie escobedo]

I have a dell inspiron 5100  running fdc 1 and xp. My system does not come 
with a floppy. So there are a few things I'd like to do:

1. How do I disable the floppy drive in the kernel? When I shut my laptop 
down I get an error similar to:
"insmod floppy...failed"

2. Since I do not have a floppy I'd like to create a boot disk on a cd  and 
I'd also like to put grub on cd. I've searched the net for about 2 months 
trying to get a boot disk and grub on cds. Any help or links appreciated.

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[Aaron Matteson]

ronnie escobedo became daring and sent these 0.8K bytes,
>  I have a dell inspiron 5100  running fdc 1 and xp. My system does not
> come 
>  with a floppy. So there are a few things I'd like to do:
>  
>  1. How do I disable the floppy drive in the kernel? When I shut my laptop 
>  down I get an error similar to:
>  "insmod floppy...failed" 
I have an inspiron 1100 with no floppy as well, to get around the
modules i just added "alias floppy off" to my /etc/modules.conf. Also
takes care of the insmod errors on boot.
 
>  2. Since I do not have a floppy I'd like to create a boot disk on
> a cd  and 
>  I'd also like to put grub on cd. I've searched the net for about 2 months 
>  trying to get a boot disk and grub on cds. Any help or links appreciated. 
I have found this handy on this topic:
http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/floppy_image_on_cd.htm

Good luck.

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