Re: Debian Boot Floppies

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.
<plug@phxinternet.net> 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
> > >
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