RE: Making the 172Mb disks.......I just can't get it to work..beginner!

From: Bob Romprey (zoot@farts.com)
Date: Sat Mar 31 2001 - 02:26:05 CEST

('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) Although I can't say for certain, I think maybe all floppies are built in one factory*grin*
I've seen no difference in "bad block count" between expensive and cheap floppies.
I've also noticed the some motherboards don't like making install floppies..........I've got a cheapie socket seven board with a TX-pro chipset that just WILL NOT either make mulinux floppies nor boot mulinux from floppies made on another machine.....while booting from an mulinux floppy init starts and then the boot cycle starts over from square one....
winsor

>Reply-To: mulinux@sunsite.dk
>Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 13:01:23 -0800
>From: "anders.smith" <anders.smith@philips.com>
>To: mulinux@sunsite.dk
>Subject: Making the 172Mb disks.......I just can't get it to work..beginner!
>
>I've downloaded the mulinux images and dos stuff, and have managed to
>get the initial install disk made under NT4, but from then on it goes
>all pear shaped
>
>I've tried on 3 different machines, but with no success. I keep getting
>an error when I try to create the disk set. There seems to be some
>problems with the dis sectors!. I therefore bought a new drive and a new
>set of MAXELL disks, but even that didn't help.
>
>I've tried using fdformat.exe under NT.
>I've tried using SuperFormat from feiz just to see it it was at all
>possible to format my disks to 1.72Mb (it wouldn't work either)
>
>What can I be doing wrong?
>Do I need to use a special type of disks (except high quality)?
>Do I need a special floppy drive?
>Do I need to enable something in the BIOS?
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated
>
>regards,
>Anders Smith
>
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