I typically use plain cat for making boot floppies: cat rescue.bin > /dev/fd0 On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:02:07 -0700, Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr. wrote: > I have tried multiple floppy drives (known good), with multiple disks. I am > thinking I am using the wrong image files. On the Debian CD1, there are > some bin files that the READMEs refer to (root.bin, rescue.bin ... ). Those > are the files I am attempting to copy to Floppy using rawrite and dd. > Again, I have some resources to use in making floppies, and the floppies I > am making with the instructions as I read them are not readable or good. > > Frustrated! > Gilbert > > -----Original Message----- > From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Mike > Garfias > Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 4:52 PM > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > Subject: Re: Debian Boot Floppies > > 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----- > > From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > [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 > > > > > > --- > > > [ This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Phoenix Internet ] [ > > > Phoenix Internet http://www.phoenixinternet.net ] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --- > > [ This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Phoenix Internet ] [ Phoenix > > Internet http://www.phoenixinternet.net ] > > > > > > --- > > [ This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Phoenix Internet ] [ Phoenix > > Internet http://www.phoenixinternet.net ] > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --- > [ This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Phoenix Internet ] [ Phoenix > Internet http://www.phoenixinternet.net ] > > --- > [ This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Phoenix Internet ] > [ Phoenix Internet http://www.phoenixinternet.net ] > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- .dh --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss