Re: OldWorld floppy images
Malte,
Errors like that are usually symptomatic of a dirty/dusty floppy drive.
Buy and use a floppy drive cleaning kit (a bottle of isopropanol
and a floppy-like thing with a non-abrasive fibrous disk in place
of the usual shiny oxide coated disk). Don't be afraid to use it
couple of times if you continue to have problems after the first
cleaning. You shouldn't need more than two or three cleanings, though.
Also, buy a box of new floppies. Don't use floppys that have been
sitting around the house for a few years. They accumulate dust
over time.
Finally, when you write the image to disk, always read it back to
make sure you have a good copy. If you didn't get a good copy,
throw away that floppy disk and use a different one.
Thus:
dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024
sync
cmp /dev/fd0 boot.img
Enjoy!
Rick
Malte Cornils wrote:
>
> Jeremie Koenig wrote:
>
> > There's a new version of the images which should fix your problems:
> > http://sprite.fr.eu.org/d-i-oldworld/floppy/
> >
> > One of ofonlyboot.img and boot.img should work for you (the other will
> > probably give no video output).
>
> Just testing here too... On a 4400/200 system, the boot.img works. However,
> inserting a root.img floppy shows
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> swim3: expected cyl 2, got 4 [three times]
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 72
>
> (and then, nothing)
>
> This *might* be a bad image, although I tried two different floppies. If you
> think it is, I will test with more floppies (although floppies never work
> right for me. Never.)
>
> I will be perfectly happy testing all matter of d-i stuff on the system, too,
> once oldworld images become available.
>
> -Malte Cornils
>
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