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

[ronnie escobedo]

thanks for the help...every worked out fine!


>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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