Re: boot floppy test
Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:43:41PM -0600 wrote:
> Test of boot floppies on Alpha PC164 with SRM.
>
> rescue and root loaded fine, got me to "configure the keyboard",
> at which time I conluded the test was over and pushed reset.
thanks for the report.
>
> However, I first tried using "dd" on an unformatted floppy,
> and it did not work. I then looked for "fdformat", it is
> not available in "potato" Debian 2.2r3. The only thing
> available for formatting floppies was something that required
> "gnome". I should not have to have gnome just to format
> a floppy.
add a testing deb-src to /etc/apt/source.list
then
# apt-get source -b fdformat
-David
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