Hardware :: Pocket - On USB Instead Of Floppy ?
Mar 1, 2010How to get Pocket Linux onto usb? I have heard that it is really secure and small. I don't have a floppy drive so I can't do the normal install.
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Fedora :: F12 & Internal Floppy Drive - Floppy Formatting No Longer Works?
Dec 13, 2009Is there something weird about the FLOPPY DRIVE on F12? Nothing associated with it works & I can't get an icon for it. Also the FLOPPY FORMATTER no longer works. (mine is an internal drive)- I had some really miner quirks with it in 10 but it worked. I had some workaround launchers that I used until an upgrade semi-fixed it. (It would give a false error that it couldn't run but did. I just ignored it.)
I tried to edit FSTAB to cure a problem of my BACKUP drive showing up twice*** so while I was in there I added the stuff for the floppy & it still doesn't work. If I try to mount it manually, I get the error that /dev/fd0 doesn't exist.I tried to find some info on it & it SEEMS that there MAY be a bug but I'm not sure as the info is a bit confusing as to just what version & such they are talking about. And there was also the problem that all the stuff seemed to be OLD or not related to my problem.I why I quite hacking at my system, is that all my workaround launchers & the formatter say that there are GNOME things missing & they can't run. So I figure that there is something missing or screwy already & that I'd better ask BEFORE I make things worse or actually break something.With the fact that floppies are about gone, it's getting to be not that big of a deal but I still find myself having to use them for repair purposes (albeit, not as much) & it gets to be a bit of a pain to fire up M$ just to do something like this.
*** It appears that the one in FSTAB was the one I needed, so where would the OTHER one be so I can get rid of it? Or at least make it auto mount.
Hardware :: Write A Floppy Boot Image To Floppy Drive (as Root)?
Feb 19, 2010I am trying to write a floppy boot image to my floppy drive (as root):
Code:
dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0
dd: opening `/dev/fd0': Read-only file system
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General :: Cannot Mount Floppy Drive While Creating Driver Floppy
Sep 23, 2009I am having a Promise TX4650 RAID controller & trying to create a driver floppy for installing the drivers. Also am using RHEL 5, I can create the driver floppy, but when I type "mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy" I get error: "mount: mount point /media/floppy does not exist".Can I get the files in a format other than the ext2 floppy image, so that we do not need to use a floppy drive?There is a readme file inside the driver archive & you can use that as a reference.
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Apr 25, 2011I am having difficulty connecting to a Dell Axim Pocket PC that is running Windows Mobile 2003 2nd Edition.According to the Ubuntu documentation Connecting to an Windows Mobile 2003 or PocketPC Device. I need to install synce-dccm, synce-serial and librra0-tools packages.
Synaptic Package Manager > Search > synce-dccm
result = nothing found
I have installed synce-serial
Synaptic Package Manager > Search > librra0-tools
result = nothing found
When I connect the device via USB
dccm: command not found
synce-serial-start could not find the serial port /dev/ttyUSB0
All I want to do is recover some files, not synchronize my PC with the device.
Fedora :: WINE - Fail To Run Pocket Tanks 1.3
Aug 5, 2009I just installed wine 1.1.2.3 and I tried to run pocket tanks 1.3, but it fails. I think it has to do with the offscreenrenderingmode and needs this [HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareWineDirect3D] "OffscreenRenderingMode"="backbuffer" However, that winedirect3d does not exist. The only things that do are fonts, drivers and occasionaly X11 and temperorary system settings Where did it go? What, if anything, Should I do? I could be completely wrong. Anyone have pocket tanks running successfully?
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Server :: Domain Didn't Resolve On Pocket Pc?
Jul 19, 2011i have hosted three websites on a computer at home on debian. i use ServerName directive for each site to map it to the desired dir. For example there are kdelchev.com and webtut.org on the same IP(95.111.108.148).
When i try to open any of my sites eg. kdelchev.com with my pocket pc (Asus P535) it displays carstatistics.eu, instead the site i want. Is that an apache misconfiguration? And what have to change to make it working?
Fedora :: Fedora Recognize Pocket Projector As A Monitor?
Feb 10, 2010I'm currently a windows xp user but am making the switch over to something open source. My friend said fedora is excellent and so I might give it a shot granted I can get my aaxa p2 pocket projector to work on it. I use my laptop for a LOAD of presentations so it is of the utmost important that my OS can sync my projector. here is what I need it to do:
in those pictures, it is simply acting as a USB drive where I can drag and drop images from my desktop on to the projector itself. This is what I need it to do on the fedora platform as well. I want to say it should work no problem but i am unsure. I know the easiest answer would be to stick to windows because it works, but i'm sick and tired of having to reformat my computer every year because it becomes so cluttered with windows attacking spy/malware and viruses.
I've even been thinking about moving over to a *gasp* mac for this issue, but I hear that macs don't sync up to the aaxa projector very well. there is info on the site but i can't find any support so someone with more experience might be able to find it. [URL]..
oh, and I ask if it would recognize as a monitor because if I can't just put files directly on, i suppose I can throw it VGA to VGA and dual monitor my presentations - this is worser case scenario.
Ubuntu :: Can't Open Floppy Under 10.04
Aug 12, 2010I tried to access my USB Floppy yesterday, I plugged it in, I could see it under Places/Computer, but I can not open the floppy, it just doesn't open, it's there, I right click to see what are my options, whether or not I can mount it but surprisingly there was no mount option in the menu, I tried to mount it manually from terminal, but nothing happens, which is very odd. I never had this problem using my Floppy drive back with other versions of Ubuntu. what should I do? How can I solve it to enjoy again using my Floppy drive?
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dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0
dd: opening `/dev/fd0': Read-only file system
But it is mounted as rw in my fstab:
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Fedora :: Using Floppy To Boot USB Drive?
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Jan 30, 2011To enable FDD in F13 I'm using "modprobe floppy" command which is placed inside "/etc/rc.d/rc.local".
Code:
[root@dc7100 rc.d]# cat rc.local
#!/bin/sh
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts. You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.
touch /var/lock/subsys/local
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In F14 this does not work any more. "modprobe floppy" is effective only when used on the CLI, but nothing happens when inside "/etc/rc.d/rc.local". Where should I place "modprobe floppy" now?
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I have not found an open source solution to open Publisher docs in Linux, so I have been trying to follow http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows to migrate the her xp installation on her old box to a vdi to use with virtualbox.My first obstacle is that the cd drive in the old machine is non-functioning. My second obstacle is that her machine dates back to the days before the bios supported booting from usb.
I have never had the time to mess with network booting, and don't know how to set up a bootp server, so sticking with what I know, I thought I could install lilo on a floppy, and have it configured to boot my external usb. Originally, lilo was installed on the mbr of the usb, but for this project, I went ahead, using the pentium 4, and reinstalled the lilo boot loader on a floppy. I did this by mounting my external usb drive (which shows up as /dev/sda) and then binding /sys, /proc, and /dev to it, and chrooting into the external usb install. Then I modified lilo.conf and reran lilo. It worked, and now the external hard drive only boots on the pentium 4 when I have the floppy inserted into /dev/fd0. However, when I plug the external drive into the pentium 2's usb, and insert the floppy and try to boot, it never makes it to the lilo prompt, and just displays 10 lines of L 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07 07..The boot order is correctly set in bios to try the floppy first. I thought I might have problems with the smp kernel on such an old system, and thought I might have to go back to huge.s, but I'm not even making it to the prompt...
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