F13 install problem (/dev/fd0 error)

Dale J. Chatham dale at chatham.org
Sat May 29 02:45:13 UTC 2010


OK, I was an idiot.  I took about 20 minutes yesterday looking for a way 
to disable the floppy.  Today, it jumped out at me.

Doh!

I might suggest that timing out the attempt to query a floppy and moving 
on might be a wise for the developers to do :)

   Dale


On 05/28/2010 02:45 PM, jack craig wrote:
>
> On 05/28/2010 11:42 AM, dale at chatham.org wrote:
>    
>> I cannot get FC13 to install.  I get a repeating /dev/fd0 error, which
>> sorta makes sense since the machine doesn't have a floppy.  However, it
>> never gets past the error.
>>
>> Has anyone seen this one?
>>
>> Help!!!
>>
>> :)
>>
>>     Dale
>>
>>
>>      
> In your bios setup, do you have an option to disable the floppy?
>
>    


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