On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 09:46:52PM -0500, Drogo Bumbleroot wrote: > -----Original Message----- > On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 03:02:52PM -0500, Drogo Bumbleroot wrote: > > I'm trying to setup a P166 with woody via floppy since it won't boot > > from CD. > > > > I've booted it with a rescue.img diskette. It will eventually ask for > > another diskette while loading linux.bin > > > > I thought the 2nd disk it was looking for was the root.img diskette. > > > > Neither a root.img diskette nor a linux.bin diskette gets this machine > > to continue to boot. > > > > Is there a known problem with any of the disk images? > > > > (Yes, I am using rawrite2 to create the diskette out of the images.) > > > > Thanks. > > From: Pigeon [mailto:jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk] > Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 6:10 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Woody diskette install > > rescue.bin followed by root.bin works for me. Maybe you have a dodgy floppy? > > -- > Pigeon > > Be kind to pigeons > Get my GPG key here: > http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F > > > > > Quite possible. I'll try again on Monday. The machine is at work. > > Thanks. > > --- Hi Drogo, In my experiece, a floppy is assumed to be 'doggy' unless I can verify it. I use md5sum on the floppy until it matches the expected number. This is what I did for my boot floppies. -Kev
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