Three thoughts ... First, if you really "require a 2 hour search through unformatted floppies" to find one that the Mandrake host will format at 1680, then you either use an unusually bad selection of floppies or there is something wrong with the Mandrake host. (I get an *occasional* failure here, maybe 1%, but nothing like the failure rate your report implies, and I use the cheapest floppies I can find.)
So the first thing I'd investigate, in your position, is whether the floppy drive on the Mandrake host (or, less likely, the LEAF host) is marginal. Assuming Mandrake uses "superformat" to format 1680 floppies, what does it report about drive calibration at the start of the process? A more direct test would be to swap in a new floppy drive (a cheap test here in the US, where new drives sell for $US10). Second, you say this about modifying the floppy: >Strangely enough the floppy will still boot the leaf box... If instead >format & install the bin file, then proceed to modify the floppy (ie remove >various lrp files I don't need & copy the needed lrp files to the floppy) >I'm able to do so, but as soon as I try to use this newly modified floppy to >boot the leaf box it gets to "loading linux....." & then says boot failure. On which host (Mandrake or LEAF) are you doing this modifying? This *might* be another symptom of a bad drive on the Mandrake (or the LEAF) host. Does your modifying involve either the kernel file or root.lrp (or any of the syslinux.* files)? Third, you ask about making your own 1440 disk in this fashion: >how can I go about making a 1440 bootable floppy for Bering ? I went & >downloaded syslinux off of kernel.org & tried using that with the kernel >file from the floppy, but when I booted that it said it was booting SYSLINUX >1.75 Mandrake 2.4.something or other. I can't spot your problem when all you tell us is that you "tried using that". Tell us what you did, and perhaps I or someone else here will be able to spot the problem. But from this description, I can only suggest that you read the man page for syslinux more carefully and try again. At 12:39 AM 10/7/02 -0500, Patrick Teague wrote: >Hello, > >I'm currently using Bering v1.0-rc3 & it works great... when it works. >Anytime I want or need to make a change it's ok until I have to save to a >floppy & then this causes all kinds of problems. I can change 1440 floppies >fine between all 5 of my computers with no problems. However, when it comes >to 1680 I get all kinds of screwy things... [details deleted] -- -------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
