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Re: Problems booting from floppy



Op do 17-07-2003, om 07:14 schreef Marvin Aguero:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I have decided to give debian a chance. So I downloaded the "woody" image
> from the web, burned the CD. The problem is that my computer doesn't boot
> from the CD.
> 
> So I've been trying to boot from the floppy to install from the CD.
> 
> I have tried the three floppy images I have found on the CD to no avail.
> 
> I am talking about:
> 
>     \dists\woody\main\disks-i386\3.0.23-2002-05-21
>     ..    \compact\tftpboot.img
>     ..    \bf2.4\tftpboot.img
>     ..    \idepci\tftpboot.img

Those aren't floppies, but netboot images.

The floppy images should be in a directory with the type of floppy as
part of its name (as in '1.44')

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Wouter Verhelst
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