Re: problem creating boot floppy

On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 10:04:41AM -0700, John Kiff wrote: > I tried superformat, but it bombed out with the following messages: > > sh: mformat: command not found > warning: mformat error > > Am I missing a package? Yep. Install mtools. -- Nathan Norman "Eschew Obfuscation"

Re: problem creating boot floppy

I tried superformat, but it bombed out with the following messages: sh: mformat: command not found warning: mformat error Am I missing a package? John Kiff --- Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, John Kiff wrote: > > > I'm pretty sure that I'm doing everythi

Re: problem creating boot floppy

On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, John Kiff wrote: > I'm pretty sure that I'm doing everything correctly, but I keep getting > back a bad disk or write-protected disk error. Make sure that you don't have any floppy with bad sectors. You can format the floppies on a running Linux machine using fdformat (fdfo

problem creating boot floppy

I wasn't able to create a boot floppy during installation (of the frozen distribution) and I'm having the same problem now that everything else is up and running. I'm pretty sure that I'm doing everything correctly, but I keep getting back a bad disk or write-protected disk error. I've gone thro