Re: bad floppy disks

2006-05-08 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Mon, 8 May 2006 it looks like Kevin Kinsey composed:

 Marty Landman wrote:
 
  This is giving me problems for some reason. I've put the floppy images on
  a
  Debian box in my office and dd'd onto a floppy. The boot.flp worked but
  then with the kern1.flp - which I dd'd onto the same floppy as boot.flp
  had gone
  on, get this after a while:
  
  zf_read: fill error
  
  readin failed
  
  elf32_loadimage: read failed
  Unable to load a kernel!
 
 
 Yeah, hard to know.  In our tests, failure rate for floppy
 diskettes, straight from a local discount retailer, is
 in the nominal 60% range.
 
 You could keep trying... ?
 

Just last night I was just trying to get three good floppies from a
brand new package of 10 to install on a Fujitsu Lifebook with only a
floppy and could not believe the failure rate.

Finally got 6.0 installed via NFS after the floppy experience.
Which poses another issue for another email about having two ISO's
available for an NFS install mounted on another system.

They also seemed to be made of flimsier plastic for when I used to
fold them in half in disgust it used to take more effort than it
does now!

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Bill Schoolcraft | http://wiliweld.com
 
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Re: bad floppy disks

2006-05-08 Thread RW
On Monday 08 May 2006 23:49, Bill Schoolcraft wrote:

 Just last night I was just trying to get three good floppies from a
 brand new package of 10 to install on a Fujitsu Lifebook with only a
 floppy and could not believe the failure rate.

I wonder if it might have more to do with the fact that these days the drives 
themselves just sit there seizing-up and gathering dust for months on end. A 
few months ago I bought a new floppy-drive just to flash a bios, the old 
drive had become really unreliable even though it had scarcely been used. 
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