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mount /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device

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mount /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device

#1 Post by Guest »

Hello. I would like to start by saying that I usually use Linux so I
don't really know how to do nice stuff on MS Windows. I don't consider
myself a Linux geek either, since I'm no administrator and only deal
with problems that appear on my home pc, on which I installed a SuSE
9.2. Also, I don't know too much of that hardware stuff that
administrators seem to know. But I've got this cute little laptop that
my dad gave me, it's an IBM Thinkpad 755C that has a win 95 on it. It
only has 20 MB of RAM and it's a 486 with a floppy drive, no cd-rom
drive

I've installed the base system of Debian (from the 20 floppy disks) on
my Thinkpad. Next thing I would like to do is isntall oher packages but since I don't have them on the hard drive of the Thinkpad, i'm thinking of taking them from the floppies and putting them on the harddrive.When I try mounting a floppy disk it says:

end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 64
/dev/fd0: Input/output error
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device

Did I go wrong somewhere at the installation? Could someone explain me
what the error means? Since I did all the isntall using the floppy drive and the floppy is recognized by my SuSE 9.2 on my pc, could it really be a bad floppy or floppy drive?

Regards
Ioana

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#2 Post by Tails »

Sounds like the floppy went south. On another note why didn't you just download the iso and boot from a cd instead of using floppy disks??? :)


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FreNsJ

#3 Post by FreNsJ »

Maybe because his laptop doesn't have a cd-drive? :wink:

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#4 Post by Tails »

opps sorry, missed that little detail...:)


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#5 Post by dreamboat »

I am a complete newbie to Linux and Debian, and I am getting a similar problem to that in this topic.

I loaded up (with some stuffing around due to a bad cd write) the kernel and basics of debian, but when attempting to apt-get xwin etc It took an age to make any progress with errors :
hdc irq timeout : Status=0xd0 {Busy}
hdc ATAPI reset complete
end request : I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc) sector 1115716

this type of message would go on for varoius sectors, and when the apt-get looked to have made some progress I finished up with

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
debian0:~#


Is the hard drive in such a sorry state that I can't load any applications onto it? Or am I going astray elsewhere???


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#6 Post by dreamboat »

Problem seems to be solved.
After three or four attempts, changing the packages to be loaded each time, and a couple of restarts, I got Xwin loaded, and the computer now tries to start xwin on startup.... leading to a screen error, but i will tackle these things one at a time until it is right.....



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