boot floppy hell.......Forum: User Feedback Topic: boot floppy hell....... started by: mpie Posted by mpie on Aug. 28 2004,21:44
major problems with the dsl-8 boot floppy, trying to create but complains no space left on disk.......these were brand new imitation disks purchased today.... antone else experinced problems... Posted by edard on Aug. 28 2004,21:58
No problem with disk space but I did have to rename boot-0.8.0.img shorter before rawrite could see it.
Posted by mpie on Aug. 28 2004,22:20
trying to do from within dsl.............. but thanks for info....
Posted by roberts on Aug. 28 2004,23:01
You don't mention what you are trying to do.Looking at the FAQ http://damnsmalllinux.org/faq.html#floppy and using that procedure from within DSL is no problem. dd if=boot-0.8.0.img of=/dev/fd0 Posted by mpie on Aug. 28 2004,23:08
der....... dosy mesilly bugg@r trying to do in emelfm......... sorry, never had to do boot floppy always booted from old copy of cd, but thanks..........time for new cd me thinks...... that will teach me , I was starting to think i knew what is was doing!!!!!!! But seriously thanks again, the support as always is faultless Posted by mpie on Aug. 28 2004,23:28
there thas better now got full hd again.......cheers |