I'm experiencing problems installing Debian1.3 from scratch. I followed the Debian1.3 installation guide and opted to install with floppy disks.
Everything went swiftly untill I reached the point : Make a Boot floppy After introducing an empty, formatted, write-enabled floppy and hitting enter I get the following messages: Formatting the floppy... Verifying track 0, head 0 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 17 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 17 Verifying track 0, head 1 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 17 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 32 Verifying track 0, head 0 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 17 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 17 Verifying track 0, head 1 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 17 end-request:I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 32 After which the installation stops. (does not hang, goes back to menu) I tried different floppies, ... , in vain. Has it got anything to do with the way I configured the device drivers (nothing installed explicitly) or might it be a hardware problem ? I installed it together with an existing MS-DOS using fips to free space for my Linux partitions. Any help for this Linux newbie highly appreciated !! :) Thanks a lot, --Erwin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .