Other people have managed to install 2.2.12, so I suspect either you had bad luck with your floppies, or you have a bad floppy drive :( after you dd the disk, try doing a cmp between the image and your floppy e.g. cmp /dev/fd0 rescue.bin I believe this is explained in the installation guide. randolph -- Debian Developer <tausq@debian.org> http://www.TauSq.org/