> > I'm sorry to hear you didn't get it to work on the first try. After > receiving your message, I went ahead and manufactured the floppy on my > (Debian) system. Here's how I did it. > > First, I noticed that superformat is already installed on my system. > I think it's part of the default Debian installation. > > Second, I noticed that the /dev file for the 1743K floppy drive > already exists on the system, but under a different name! In the > readme for CatRescue, it is referred to as /dev/fd0H1743 but on my > system it is /dev/fd0u1743. > > Third, I formatted a blank floppy using the command > superformat -s21 -t83 /dev/fd0 > > Fourth, I ran the following command from the top of the CatRescue101E > source tree: > zcat image.gz | dd bs=1024 of=/dev/fd0u1743 > > Note the lowercase 'u' instead of the uppercase 'H' in the device file > name. > > My advice: try the installation again -- this product is worth the > effort :-) >
Thanks Nathan. I did everything you recommended. Still no go. I will assume now that my floppy drive cannot handle non standard format. I can rawrite to it and make new INSTALL BOOT and ROOT disks. The floppy diskette still gave me errors. And when I tried to boot from it anyway, just to see. I get: LILO CatRescue Error 0x04 LILO CatRescue Error 0x04 Until I reset the system via the <RESET> push button. I really appreciate your assistance. Chuma Agbodike -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]