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From: Pixel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 11:53 AM
Subject: [expert] floppy boot fails whereas cdrom boot works
> Ian Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > But the bootable floppy image on my CD didn't seem to work. Don't know
if
> > they're all like that though.
>
> strange, strange, how did you make this floppy? rawrite? are you sure the
floppy
> is good.
>
> the weird thing is that it seems to happend to quite a lot of people... it
> really don't know what is the problem. i can't reproduce it here, so if
somebody
> has any idea what the problem is :(
Perhaps what is needed is a version of rawrite (or an separate program )
that evaluates the new floppy against a checksum . I frequently get copy
errors when writing to a floppy using rawrite, but now I know that if the
floppy fails, I should try a new floppy write instead of pulling my hair
out. Good success with floppy creation in my case also seems to depend on
BIOS settings that, although improving system performance, screw up the
floppy. Overclocking also seems to interfere with _writing_ the floppies
(while reading seems to be OK). But this is just my system, YMMV.
For now, perhaps a README in the /images directory suggesting that if
problems using a newly created floppy occur, the first thing to do is to
make a new floppy to try.
Hoyt
