>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 just had to boot from a floppy and had the same situation. It does take a LONG
time (I don't remember other distribtions (Redhat, Caldera, etc) boot-floppies
being so slow...), but eventually my system boots up properly. I'd install LILO
or grub ASAP and not rely on a floppy. IMHO, floppies are an unreliable media.
Scott
