Am 2004-05-16 22:09:09, schrieb John Miskinis:
>Hi Michelle,
>
>It is very common to have problems creating (working) boot
>floppies, caused by bad media. Lately, I need to throw out
>about 1 in every 3 I try.
This problem is known sinc I use Debian SLINK (03/1999) ;-)
>Ensure they are reformatted, and contain 0 bad blocks, otherwise
>you will be frustrated!
I have around 800 Floppies and from time to time if I
have nothing to do, I do 'fdformat /dev/fd0u1680' and
'mkfs.ext2 -c -b 1024 -m 0 /dev/fd0u1680' :-)
If a Floppy has only one Error > /dev/garbage
>John Miskinis
Greetings
Michelle
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