Dan, Thanks. That was it.
I figure the boot floppy still ended up as a coaster. Somewhere or other I have squirreled away how to make a boot floppy from scratch. -rick -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Freedman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] . . . Rick, Hi. I think it'll let you proceed with formatting the floppy even if it doesn't have the final binary 'mformat' to do the final stage. My guess is that an initial 'apt-get install mtools' should let you do this in the future. . . .