Hi I tried to install debian woody from set of CDs "Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 beta "Woody" - fsn.hu unofficial i386 Binary-[n]", which I downloaded few days ago. Since my system has no way to boot on CD, I tried to build boot floppies : idepci.bin and root.bin from the "/isolinux" directory on CD. The generation of those images definetely sucks in my case : I tried them on windows, with rawrite2.exe, with rawrite v1.3 I also tried to generate those images on a debian box, using dd.
In any case, either floppy generation fails and reports a Sector error (though I tried it on several floppies, and on several drives), or floppy is generated and definetely unreadable.On a Debian system I cannot mount generated floppy (I have vfat compiled in the kernel). On a windows system the floppy FAT seems totally corrupted, reports a total of several Gigabytes, and shows absolutely crap and incoherent filenames with plenty of unusual characters in them. I also tried to download those images from a ftp server, just in case my CD would be the problem, but those images act the same. Therefore I wonder if anyone on this list has experienced the same problem. I also wonder if that problem has already been reported, but I couldnt find package name to report it as on debian Bug report system. Please Cc: me in answer since I am not subscribed to this mailing list. Cheers, Vincent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
