Brendan. you say you have a cd drive in this machine. Can you boot offf it? If so boot the ipcop cd and install that way, no need for floppies.
alternatively, you could try making your boot floppies on a linux box. I am not sure whats going wrong with rawrite, but I confess to not using rawrite for many moons. why is it you need to wait for a floppy drive to replace the allegedly broken one? they are a dime a dozen in computer stores. on the other hand, if the floppy is some proprietary job, then that could be the problem... if your computer wil boot off the network, that may be possible to do. look at the boot messages for any such indicatin (eg my compaq ipcop box says BUT most of all we can explore this on saturday :-) ask for me or chris sawtell, we are the self appointed ipcop team ;-) On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 21:57:25 +1200 Brendan Greer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > >What went wrong? > > > > > > I some how managed to stuff 3 floppy disk drives trying to write the > boot image to a floppy disk (after the third I lost patience and have > just about given up) > So technically I havent got to the install stage yet > > > here is a more detailed description of my problem (from this thread > >Slightly OT Floppy Disk problems - Writing images, formatting) > > > Hi > > (Hope this is not to OT or on the darkside ) > > > > 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 > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
