I burn the images with something like dd if=bare.i of=/dev/fd0
and the odd thing is that it seems to work on fresh floppies, and even used floppies with MSDOS filesystems on them, but for some reason once there's a boot or rootdisk image on it, and I dd a new one over it, I get various i/o errors on write and/or when I try to boot from it. Didn't think of using badblocks ... I prefer just to throw the damn things out :) Maybe I'll give it a shot. Alexey Toptygin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, J. Milgram wrote: > > > I want to install Slack 10.1, but it seems that now you need to make > > three floppies - one boot, and two root disks. I'm sick of floppies and > > anyway for some reason the floppies I'm making aren't working for some > > reason. > > Have you badblocks(8)ed the floppies? Floppy media goes bad all the time. > > Alexey >
