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Bug#140305: marked as done (Make a Boot Floppy failes on boot-floppies version 3.0.21)



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Subject: Make a Boot Floppy failes on boot-floppies version 3.0.21
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 09:20:57 -0500
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Package: boot-floppies
Verion: 3.0.21

Attempt to create a boot floppy from dbootstrap fails.  I see the
superformat execute and I do a "cat /var/log/messages" from another terminal
and I see the following:
-------
user.info.dbootstrap[256]: formatting floppy with cmd 'export
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/target/lib:/target/usr/lib";/target/usr/bin/superformat
/dev/fd0 hd'

user.info.dbootstrap[256]: mount: Mounting /dev/fd0 on /floppy failed.  No
such device
--------

dbootstrap returns the message:

Creation of the boot floppy failed.  Please make sure that the floppy was
not write-protected, and that you put it in the first drive.  Try another
floppy if the problem persists.

This seems very similar to bug 99934!

Thanks for any help,

Tom


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Subject: boot-floppies end of life
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I'm closing all bug reports filed on the boot-floppies since this
codebase has reached its end of life. boot-floppies is only in Debian
oldstable now (and temporarily in unstable because of bug #224469).

The new installer for sarge and beyond is of course, the
debian-installer. It solves a great many issues present in the
boot-floppies.

If you believe that your boot-floppies bug is still present in
debian-installer somehow, then please reopen the bug report and reassign
it there, or perhaps better, file a new bug report.

--=20
see shy jo

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