Installation - Driver Floppy Error

["Ken M. Mevand" <geekabyte@yahoo.com>]

hi list,
    i tried installing Debian from a disk i got in a book "Installing Debian
GNU/Linux". when i got the "Installing Kernel and System Base", it
complaints failed installing the driver floppy. is this because the disk is
bad, or something else?  can i skip this step?

    my system is a Cyrix 300 with 32Mb RAM, hda-4Gb (Windows), hdb-8Gb
(Linux)

thanks,

ken