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 what the track record for zip and LS120 disks is. > > > > Even Debian is refusing to install properly on it, the last semi > > successful install attempt resulted in a Read Only partial install that > > won't boot from the hard disk and a floppy boot won't access the hard > > disk. I believe that Debian has "signed" the boot partition in some way > > to make the disk(s) unusable. In other words, a software flag or > > partition id was written to the disk in a way that was not completely > > correct. How can I correct this? Is there a Hex editor I could use to > > clear the boot sector of the disk so a new install would work correctly? > > > > I would go to http://toms.net/tomsrtbt and get his 1 floppy Linux system. > With it you will be able to look at the HD and might be able to figure > what went west. This requires a floppy formatted at 1.7 MB, which will challenge many floppies which format successfully at 1.44 MB (Linux or DOS). I went through five "good" floppies before I could install it. Bob
