[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux boot floppy -- making it without windows or dos

[Terry Henderson]

On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 13:39:26 -0600, Peter A. Koren
<p.koren at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> I've got a problem. I just bought the Mandrake 10.1 powerpack set and
> want to upgrade. But my computer has a bug and will not boot off of the
> CDROM because of some error, probably a faulty BIOS, even thought I set
> the BIOS to try the CDROM first. So I am stuck with using a floppy disk
> to boot. I have been doing this for years on my ABIT BP6 based system.
> 
> The problem now is that all of my old floppy disks have aged into
> uselessness and I could not install windows or dos which I have always
> used before for just one thing -- having rawrite create a boot disk for
> linux using the proper image file on the linux distribution CD. Using
> the dd command under linux does create files on a blank formatted brand
> new floppy, but it also creates bad blocks and I don't want to bother

bad blocks would indicate problem with the media disk.

Try another floppy