Re: potato boot floppy

2002-01-30 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 05:33:31PM -0500, scook wrote: > I kept trying, changing to idepci flavor and using different diskettes, > and finally got one to format without errors. > Now I am just using lilo on hda and when I give up I > dd if/boot/boot.0300 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1 > (from page 137

Re: potato boot floppy

2002-01-30 Thread scook
I kept trying, changing to idepci flavor and using different diskettes, and finally got one to format without errors. Now I am just using lilo on hda and when I give up I dd if/boot/boot.0300 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1 (from page 137 of _Running Linux_) My big problem now is hard disk errors that

Re: potato boot floppy

2002-01-30 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 06:32:04AM -0500, Sam Cook wrote: > I am a new user trying to install vanilla potato from an existing dos > partition. Everything seems to go okay until I try to create a boot > disk. > I get errors with the format of the floppy (invariably). Dos system has > no problems wi

potato boot floppy

2002-01-30 Thread Sam Cook
I am a new user trying to install vanilla potato from an existing dos partition. Everything seems to go okay until I try to create a boot disk. I get errors with the format of the floppy (invariably). Dos system has no problems with the drive or media. Any suggestions?