On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Richard Heller wrote: > Hi,
Hi. Can you shorten your lines please. > > I get to the point in the Debian install where it asks to make a boot floppy. Everything else seems to be ok, but it keeps > giving me errors when trying to create the boot disk. I'm not sure what the error is and I know the floppy is good because I > just formatted it under Win98 and can create files on it. What would cause the Debian install to not be able to create > a boot floppy? Well, these symptoms are consistent with the problem I had (and knew I would have) on a new machine. Just check that it is a floppy drive and not an LS120 superfloppy drive. This assumes, of course, that you didn't use the 7-floppy method of installation as that wouldn't have worked either. (I installed root2_0.tgz from a zip drive.) If you have DOS on any mountable disk, you can copy the kernel to there from /boot, rdev it, and then copy it onto a duplicate rescue disk in DOS. Then you need to build your own kernel with LS120 support. OTOH if that's not the problem, sorry... Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
