Re: "test" boot-floppies for slink, does rawrite2 still work?

[sharkey@superk.physics.sunysb.edu]

>  esoR ocsirF <rosef@eou.edu> writes:
> >I have DL'ed resc1743.bin 
> >and would like to use rawrite2 to create the floppy image. Each time I 
> >have tried I get an error saying "bad sector detected" which happens at 
> >track 80'ish.
> 
> Several of the >1.44M floppy formats use more than the standard number
> of cylinders.  Most drives can handle that.  Maybe yours cannot.

I'm not really comfortable with the idea of Debian releasing disks that work
on "most" systems.

Should we have a new slogan?:

Debian:  Because it will probably install

Is there any way we can trim these disks back down to 1.44 MB, or at least
provide a 1.44 MB set of disks with fewer features, so that the only people
who have problems are people who have both finicky drives and a need for
uncommon features?  Maybe cut out ISDN support or something like that?

Eric




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