Re: How can I create a boot-Floppy for the ATARI TT030, when the installation-menu doesn´t do?

[Ross Vumbaca <rossv1@optushome.com.au>]

Hi,

Thomas Scherk wrote:

> I am just installing Woody on my ATARI TT030.
>
> I am at the state that I am asked, wether to make
>
> 1. 	HardDisk bootable (that won´t work, it is not
> 	implemented yet for the ATARI TT) or
> 2.	Create a bootable Floppy or
> 3.	Reboot
>
> Selecting "Create a bootable Floppy" doesn´t work. I am asked to put in a
> fresh  formated Floppy into my Floppy Drive. I do so, than I get a message
> that "the Boot Floppy can´t be written".
>
> How can I try this from console 2? What must I check?
>
> The Floppy Light is flashing on and off the whole time from the time booting
> from bootstra.prg. It doesn´t stop flashing.

I think your only choice is to reboot. To enter the installed system 
again, you then go back to TOS, and you boot in a similar way to the 
instaler, except you change the bootargs so that there is no initrd and 
that root is not /dev/ram, and is instead /dev/sdxx (wherever you 
installed it).

Regards,

Ross..