On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 06:48:18PM +0000, Edwin Kilday wrote: > I'm attempting to install Debian on a pc for the first time (vanilla > flavour). I downloaded the latest version from your site. You mean the Woody boot-floppies, version 3.0.20? > I'm having trouble with the creation of a boot floppy after going through > the rest of the installation with no problems. The installation program > goes through each cylinder and head of the disk formatting and then > verifying until it gets to cylinder 79 or 80 and then jumps to a dialog > entitled 'Problem'... > > "Creation of the boot floppy failed. Please make sure that the foppy was > not write-protected,..." - it isn't > > "...and that you put in the first drive..." - I did > > "...Try another floppy if the problem persists." - tried several. > > Is this a standard problem? No. > Am I being daft? No. > Do you need more info in order to help? Yes. Could you switch to virtual console 3 after this occurs and send us the last few lines of the log? In the meantime, you don't really need to make a boot floppy. You can install a boot loader on your hard drive, or just boot from the rescue disk. Matt
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