Am Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:01:45 -0500 schrieb Carl Hartung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Monday 20 February 2006 03:21, Thomas Porschberg wrote: > <snip> > > Hi Thomas, > > I offer these suggestions because I've "been there and done that": > > 1. use all new fresh-from-the-box floppies; no 'repurposed' recent > purchases and certainly none that have been laying around gathering > dust for a couple of years. > > 2. If you have a windows box available, use the GUI "rawwritewin" to > create the diskettes. You are more likely to discover a 'marginal' > image or floppy at this stage using this utility. In my opinion, > error handling with floppies in Linux is not as mature or robust as > it is in Win/DOS (it's legacy from the days when DOS *ran from* > floppies.) If you rely on mkbootdisk alone, you will try to boot from > the series of floppies you've made and 'discover' your marginal > floppies then. This is a very time consuming and frustrating way to > go. > > 3. As you are creating the floppies, take each one to another machine > if at all possible and verify it can be read successfully. The first > diskette will need to be verified in this manner with a Linux box. > The others have a 'readme' file that is visible from Win/DOS. A clear > sign of trouble is you do an 'ls' or 'dir' (DOS) and get a read > error. I am amazed at how frequently I see this now... I *remember* > the days when floppies *had* to be reliable. I guess they're not made > to the same standards today. :-/ > I tested my first bootdisk, created by mkbootdisk from DVD, at another computer, no success. Then I found http://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/10.0/bootdisks/ copied the first image to the floppy, started the computer with this disk again and a nice installation screen appeared... Now I hope the best for my seven 1.44MB disks, oh yes, very old ... and I feel about 8 years younger by copying files to disks. Thomas -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
