On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, John Kiff wrote:
> I'm pretty sure that I'm doing everything correctly, but I keep getting > back a bad disk or write-protected disk error. Make sure that you don't have any floppy with bad sectors. You can format the floppies on a running Linux machine using fdformat (fdformat /dev/fd0u1440) or superformat (superformat /dev/fd0); on fdformat, "done" has to be returned; on superformat, you can see every track that's being formatted. > I've gone through a whole pack of floppies and then some, I've made > absolutely sure that the write-protect tab is in the right position, and > I've even tried floppies that work just fine on my other Debian-loaded > machine. They're all being rejected by mkboot. Have I run into a frozen > distribution bug, or am I just having really bad luck? Maybe it was just a bad luck; I had the same problem the other day, at a time, I could create a boot floppy, but not on other time. But if you have a running Debian machine, making a boot floppy is not that difficult: superformat /dev/fd0 dd if=/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 conv=sync rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/<your boot partition> rdev -R /dev/fd0 1 So, even if dbootstrap couldn't create the boot floppy, use the one you created as above. Oki