Re: I need hellp installing debian....

[George Bonser <grep@oriole.sbay.org>]

Rule #1 ALWAYS format the disks (even if brand new) before using dd to
move the data.

As for why is linux so picky ... I think someone should get hold of the
DR-DOS source code from Caldera and see about improving the floppy code
using that as an example.

On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Lindsay Allen wrote:

> That said, does anyone know why Linux is so picky about floppies?  I know
> that dos will retry several times to read a flaky sector - does Linux do
> this too? 
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