Re: Debian Kills Disks

1999-03-02 Thread wtopa
Subject: Re: Debian Kills Disks Date: Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 03:57:44PM -0700 In reply to:Bob Nielsen Quoting Bob Nielsen([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Mon, 1 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Floppies are getting even worse. They are not reliable

Re: Debian Kills Disks

1999-03-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Floppies are getting even worse. They are not reliable but we can't > all get a zip or LS120. Debian doesn't overwork them, they just fail. > I bought 100 new Fuji floppies and 15 out of 100 would not even > format, on Win95 or Linux! I wonder wh

Re: Debian Kills Disks

1999-03-01 Thread wtopa
Subject: Debian Kills Disks Date: Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 06:39:39PM -0500 In reply to:Jerry Human Quoting Jerry Human([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hello Debian Geeks: > > Before you get upset let me declare that I'm a Linux/Debian newbie geek > wannabe. I'

Re: Debian Kills Disks

1999-03-01 Thread John Goerzen
Jerry, It would be *very* helpful if you could include the exact error messages that you get, word-for-word, what you were doing when you received them, and how to reproduce. Otherwise, we really have no idea what to do to fix. However, you can wipe out the partition table and master boot record

Debian Kills Disks

1999-02-28 Thread Jerry Human
Hello Debian Geeks: Before you get upset let me declare that I'm a Linux/Debian newbie geek wannabe. I've only recently (a month ago) became interested in Linux. I've spent most of the time reading everything I could find. I have d/led a few distros to get a feel of Linux. I have two computers, a