On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:08:55AM -0500, James W. Lindenschmidt wrote:
> Greetings, everyone.
>
> I just migrated from RedHat over to Debian potato and I'm thrilled so
> far.
>
> But, I think my boot disk is defective, since it takes 5-7 minutes for
> the
>
> Loading Linux..............
>
> process to complete from /dev/fd0 before Linux actually boots. I suspect
> I have a bad floppy, and I want to make a new boot floppy.
>
> I've tried going back into dbootstrap to make it from there, but it
> won't work. It says my disk is either write protected or I'm not using
> the first disk drive, despite the fact that /dev/fd0 whirs before I get
> this error message. I've tried 5 different newly formatted disks, and I
> always get this error.
>
> Is there any other way to make a boot disk? I need to use this
> temporarily until I can install LILO.
>
I've had lots of boot floppies behave as you say.
I don't know if it will help to make another but -
"mkboot" will make a boot floppy for you.
hth,
kent
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