Re: Debian Kills Disks
Subject: Re: Debian Kills Disks
Date: Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 03:57:44PM -0700
In reply to:Bob Nielsen
Quoting Bob Nielsen(nielsen@primenet.com):
>
> On Mon, 1 Mar 1999 wtopa@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>
> >
> > Floppies are getting even worse. They are not reliable but we can't
> > all get a zip or LS120. Debian doesn't overwork them, they just fail.
> > I bought 100 new Fuji floppies and 15 out of 100 would not even
> > format, on Win95 or Linux!
>
> I wonder what the track record for zip and LS120 disks is.
>
> > >
> > > Even Debian is refusing to install properly on it, the last semi
> > > successful install attempt resulted in a Read Only partial install that
> > > won't boot from the hard disk and a floppy boot won't access the hard
> > > disk. I believe that Debian has "signed" the boot partition in some way
> > > to make the disk(s) unusable. In other words, a software flag or
> > > partition id was written to the disk in a way that was not completely
> > > correct. How can I correct this? Is there a Hex editor I could use to
> > > clear the boot sector of the disk so a new install would work correctly?
> > >
> >
> > I would go to http://toms.net/tomsrtbt and get his 1 floppy Linux system.
> > With it you will be able to look at the HD and might be able to figure
> > what went west.
>
> This requires a floppy formatted at 1.7 MB, which will challenge many
> floppies which format successfully at 1.44 MB (Linux or DOS). I went
> through five "good" floppies before I could install it.
>
> Bob
It only took me 3 of the Fuji's Bob. But I have had no trouble using
'his' fdformat program. Now superformat is yet another story.
Wayne
--
At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer you will
find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on
the computer.
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Wayne T. Topa <wtopa@ix.netcom.com>
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