On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Ian Douglas wrote:
>
> > But the bootable floppy image on my CD didn't seem to work. Don't know if
> > they're all like that though.
>
> If you have not already done it, do md5sum on the floppy *.img file and on
> /dev/fd0 (yes, it works!) and compare the results. Also, the floppy you
> use must be pre-tested for no bad blocks.
> Regards,
> Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
I just needed to make a boot disk myself to boot Linux while my
hda drive was being replaced. I had one, but it sometimes wouldn't
work, and I wanted two anyhow. One for my current kernel and one
for my backup kernel. Most of my floppys have been in unused in
years, and I find there's now a lot of rejects.
I installed 'superformat' (http://www.tux.org/pub/knaff/fdutils)
and use it to 'over format' a floppy to 1992k, then format and
verify it back to 1440k. Seems to work. After doing that, every
bootdisk I made worked. I use to do a similar deal in Dos when
Windows would start rejecting floppys.
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.. Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
