Am 2004-05-16 22:09:09, schrieb John Miskinis: >Hi Michelle, > >It is very common to have problems creating (working) boot >floppies, caused by bad media. Lately, I need to throw out >about 1 in every 3 I try.
This problem is known sinc I use Debian SLINK (03/1999) ;-) >Ensure they are reformatted, and contain 0 bad blocks, otherwise >you will be frustrated! I have around 800 Floppies and from time to time if I have nothing to do, I do 'fdformat /dev/fd0u1680' and 'mkfs.ext2 -c -b 1024 -m 0 /dev/fd0u1680' :-) If a Floppy has only one Error > /dev/garbage >John Miskinis Greetings Michelle -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi 0033/3/88452356 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com)
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