boot floppy problems

[bruce@va.debian.org]

John, please run the "hamm" installation floppy and see what problems
still exist. Now is the time when we need to hear from people with
odd hardware.

	Thanks

	Bruce

> 	OK , right.  This particular error still allowed a boot
> (sometimes, I think.)  But I got strange behavior after that. For instance
> fdisk gave some kind of errors about "last cylinder" (?)  And I
> attrtibuted this to the boot warning Fdisk on the same disk , same
> partitions, but in newer hardware gives no such problems. 
> 	So this is probably not a bootdisk problem.
> 	
> I have an old floppy controller out of a 386 which won't run the format
> command used when making the boot disk during the installation procedure.
> I guess that may not be a rescue disk problem either.


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