Sometime on May 14, vulcan assembled some asciibets to say:
> a few days ago (as i mentioned) i have copied RH boot.img thru rawrite
> to a floppy. I had also copied rescue.img to another disk, but it gave
> some error message i don't remember now. boot floppy had been working
> fine.
>
> i was using originally dos formatted 1.44, some of which had winNT and
> win95 data.
rawrite - in case the name doesn't make it obvious - writes raw data to a
disk. ie it does not care about file system or anything. As a result, it
wipes out anything on the disk - including the file system. The img file
that you write (not copy - copy requires a file system) to the disk must
contain the file system within it.
The img files contain an ext2 file system.
> and booting from win95/win98 startup floppies, but RHLinux boot shows
> the first screen and says the most descriptive words "boot failure" .
The img file may have been corrupted.
> the drive is creating problems in writing/formatting. invalid media,
> etc.
That's cause windows believes that FAT-12/16/32/NTFS/HPFS are the only
file systems in the world. Anything else means that somethings wrong.
The most likely thing to go wrong is the disk being bad - at least that's
what users are most likely to believe. Imagine an error message that says
"Invalid media - ext2fs - rival operating systems not supported"
Now this may sound windows bashing - and you may consider it to be a way
of pushing windows queries off this list. It's just my way of saying that
unless windows decides to become more open about what it does and how it
does it, many of us wouldn't like to use it. Some of us still do - we
just don't like to.
> how to make my floppy drive to perform properly.
> any method of salvaging floppy disks.
Low level format the disks - format a: /u
If that doesn't work, use hd-copy.
Philip
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