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 blocks on it (which rawrite doesn't tell you, and the inexperienced > user won't notice until too late) it's too late to do anything.
Please, this is incorrect. The official CD is bootable, or you can run a batch file in DOS in one directory (both require no floppies). Or you can make just a boot disk, use resc1440.bin. There is no need to make 6 disks any more -- this was the Debian < 1.3 days. 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. > Additionally, the boot+root (single-disk) causes some problems. If > one kernel refuses to boot on your computer, you are *required* to > construct your own disks from a kernel and debian's rootdisk. This takes > someone quite far along the larning curve, and should be avoided at a > distribution's install level. How do you propose to solve this? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]