The Linux driver seems to have problems with some floppy drives. I suggest you write the floppies from another PC. You should, by the way, be able to set any of the first 4 partitions on the first hard drive to be "active" and boot from it. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP Bruce@Pixar.com 510-215-3502 Finger bruce@master.Debian.org for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3