Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> May I suggest that you forward your message upstream to either the kernel
> people or those who do the drivers. It is downright embarrasing to have
> our favourite OS not be able to read a floppy reliably.
Actually, my points were that almost all o
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Bob Hilliard wrote:
> Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> >
> > > The sensitivity to good disks is, as I understand it, caused by poor
> > > BIOS floppy drivers and is independent of the Linux kernel, let alone
> > > w
Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> > The sensitivity to good disks is, as I understand it, caused by poor
> > BIOS floppy drivers and is independent of the Linux kernel, let alone
> > which distribution you are running.
>
> Actually, as I
On Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 10:28:45AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In my experience, debian's bootdisk problems are inherent to the
> entire "disk" method of installation. The way it is constructed (in hamm),
> it needs 9 brand-new disks, with no blemish. If even one disk has a few
> bad
On Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 05:32:54PM -0700, David Welton wrote:
> Ok, I have had enough.. I would like to do something!
[...]
> In any case, I'm just stressed out.. I'm frustrated that it doesnt
> work, and I couldnt help a friend install debian, and I'd like to do
> something about it, other than j
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> The sensitivity to good disks is, as I understand it, caused by poor
> BIOS floppy drivers and is independent of the Linux kernel, let alone
> which distribution you are running.
Actually, as I understood it, the problem was poor linux floppy
drivers.
On Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 10:28:45AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In my experience, debian's bootdisk problems are inherent to the
> entire "disk" method of installation. The way it is constructed (in hamm),
> it needs 9 brand-new disks, with no blemish. If even one disk has a few
> bad bl
On Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 05:32:54PM -0700, David Welton wrote:
> In any case, I'm just stressed out.. I'm frustrated that it doesnt
> work, and I couldnt help a friend install debian, and I'd like to do
> something about it, other than just whining.
For one particular install I did, Debian was the
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On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, David Welton wrote:
> Ok, I have had enough.. I would like to do something!
>
> After hearing for the nth time that someone's computer wont work with
> debian but will with redhat and slackware, I would like to try my hand
> at making some
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