Hi I have appended the original message.
Apparently I was not subscribed when I sent this the first time, so did not see any responses. Please mail me directly if you have a fix, there no need to post a second time. I really am in a quandrary - that floppy drive looks ok, but fdformat doesn't format a floppy so I cannot create a boot disk with the install scripts. dselect, when asked to update packages returns an error as well, which I did not note in the original message. HELP, Please! David ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:49:06 -0500 (EST) From: David B. Teague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Apparent floppy disk problem Cc: TEAGUE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi The problem exhibits itself when I attempt to create a boot floppy while attempting to install Debian 1.1.8. The script attempts to format the floppy disk and fails on verify - with any disk floppy I use, and I have used about a dozen different disks, with essentially the same message: Formatting floppy .... verifying ... end_request I/O error dev 02:00 sector 15 end_request I/O error sector 16 end_request I/O error sector 30 end_request I/O error sector 32 read - unknown error I at first attributed this to a bad image from the CD, but I down loaded the install disk images from the ftp site. Using an older slackware installation, I used this to write the disks: dd if=image of=/dev/fd0 bs=18 Where image is successively the special boot 1 (for all adaptec scsi), root.bin base14-[123].bin. My machine is a 486 dx2 66, 256 K cache, 16 MB RAM a 1542A SCSI controller, and 4 scsi devices: /dev/sda: MICROP Model: 1674-07MB1036510 Rev: AS0A scsi id 0 /dev/sdb SEAGATE Model: ST3655N Rev: 0190 scsi id 2 /dev/sdc FUJITSU Model: M1606S-512 Rev: 6234 scsi id 3 /dev/sdd SyQuest Model: EZ135S Rev: 1_12 scsi id 4 /dev/scd0 TEXEL Model: CD-ROM DM-XX24 K Rev: 1.09 scsi id 6 scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom, 4 SCSI disks total. And a single 1.44 MB floppy in /dev/fd0 that gives no problems with an older Slackware Linux, and works fine with Norton utilities on the floppies that I format using Norton's format program, or under Slackware Linux. I tried the fdformat from a shell spawned with a function key. It fails. Help! -David ------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINUX: the FREE 32 bit OS for [345]86 PC's available NOW! David B Teague | User interface copyrights & software patents make [EMAIL PROTECTED] | programing a dangerous business. Ask me or [EMAIL PROTECTED] spy counter-intelligence wild porno sex gold bullion Soviet Bosnia clipper -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]