From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed Feb 9 1:13:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat197.96.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.197.96]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3806E4913 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 20:54:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA86151; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 00:53:37 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 00:53:36 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMWare: reading from floppy drive ... In-Reply-To: <20000208224859.A248@jupiter.delta.ny.us> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Vladimir N. Silyaev wrote: > > Slowly figuring out `caveats` with this thing, and moving > > forward. Got rtc installed and running, so mouse appears to be slightly > > more responsive. Trying to get the `performance patches` installed next, > > but can`t seem to get it to read from floppy: > > > >Linux_Floppy: Disk supposedly present, read: `Invalid argument`! > > Dumb question: did you have a floppy disk in a floppy drive? Yup, withthe performance patches copied to it. I ended up getting the network up and running and just ftp'ng them in instead ... Ppl at work are *soooo* impressed right now :) Next is to get 'an existing device' working, which I'll act on the recommendations received so far tomorrow ... Thanks ... Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message