> -----Original Message----- > From: Brendan Greer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 8 July 2004 10:33 p.m. > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Slightly OT Floppy Disk problems - Writing images, formatting > > > Hi > (Hope this is not to OT or on the darkside :-D ) > > I am having problems with my floppy disk drive. > > In windows 98 trying to use rawwritewin and rawrite to write boot > disks(ipcop) the following errors comes up > In the windows version wfter pressing the write button > Error writing to disk > followed by > Image was not succesfully written > The dos version outputs the following > > > H:\dosutils>rawrite > > RaWrite 1.2 - Write disk file to raw floppy diskette > > > > Enter source file name: boot-1~1.img > > Enter destination drive: a > > Please insert a formatted diskette into drive A: and press -ENTER- : > > Can't figure out how many sectors/track for this diskette. > > > > H:\dosutils> > > > After all that I just tried to format a floppy disk > > > C:\WINDOWS>format a: > > Insert new diskette for drive A: > > and press ENTER when ready... > > > > Checking existing disk format. > > Formatting 1.44M > > Format complete. > > Unable to write BOOT. > > Format terminated. > > Format another (Y/N)? > > Other miscleaneous info > Tried all the above with various ages of floppy disks > (ranging from one > year old to brought tonight) about 20 - 30 disks in total > Tried above on two different computers (both netwroked together and > running win98) > Neither computer appears to want to boot from floppy (had to > dissable it > in one) > > So does any one know(or have some idea) what my problem could be and > how to fix it? > > OR does any one know how to install ipcop with out a boot > disk (cd rom > or floppy)? > > Any help would be most appreciated > > Brendan > > >
So you can't set the Cdrom to be the boot device? Ok, your floppy issues may be related to BIOS level settings. Check that you do not have AV for boot on in the BIOS and in the OS. Ciao, Dave. Ps I am running the latest IPCop 1.4.0b5 ISO here, loving it.
