Are you sure that the flopppy drive is good?  If you've tried making mulitple
floppies and had them all not work, I'd start looking at other sources of
problems.

Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr. spoke forth with the blessed manuscript:
> I have an old machine that for some reason or another refuses to boot off of
> CD.  I have made boot floppies for Centos and have been able to progress
> with that, but the system is a Pentium 200 (Centos requires a faster box and
> will not install).  I know Debian supports older hardware, therefore I
> wanted to do the install with Debian.
> 
> Gilbert
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Mike
> Garfias
> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 4:44 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Debian Boot Floppies
> 
> Never had an issue.  Tho I have not used floppies in ages.  I make a cdr
> with the bootstrap iso and go from there.
> 
> Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr. spoke forth with the blessed manuscript:
> > Has anyone had difficulty making boot disks for Debian Woody?  I 
> > cannot for the life of me make boot disks.  I have tried dd on a 
> > RedHat box and used Windows utilities.  All of the floppies I make are 
> > non-bootable and non-readable.  Any suggestions?
> > 
> > Gilbert
> > 
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