Floppy drive not responding.

Xandros Pilosa folivora.pilosa at gmail.com
Mon Jun 29 06:47:45 UTC 2009


HermanAA wrote:

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  Plus, depending on how old the system is, Win95 may be the
>> better choice over WinXP.

I am not so shore about that, concerning security at least. Note, that 
win95 is not supported any more by ms, neither by a majority of 
wf/anivirus programs, I think.

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> The Read-Only is already hooked-up at Camly. But her WIN95 has no
> driver.

You don´t need any drivers to run a live cd with suitable (to her 
hardware) linux distribution as long as bios recognizes the cd drive.

> I Googled for the CD-driver and instructions.
> To prepare a diskette for her, I installed a Floppy-drive in my system.
>  .... and ran into problems. (and asked you for help)

You may be able to hook the cd drive (if the the bios has that option) 
-> run live sesion of linux-> mount hd-> search the net for win95 
drivers (if you insist on that os)-> save drivers on hd and install them 
from win95.
Again, I don´t think it is the best choice.

Best regards!




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