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Re: [BL] floppy drive cannot read linux disks

From: 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org
To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [BL] floppy drive cannot read linux disks
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 18:21:24 +1300

Sindi Keesan wrote:
>
> But I have no 2m.com or 2mf.exe - should these have
> appeared when I unzipped bl2.zip?

No. They are not used for BL 2.1.

> I know, we have lots of 1.44 floppy disks with bad sectors
> which is why I chose three with all good sectors (as shown
> by formatting them).

On the same drive? Just because a floppy formats 100% OK
on one drive does not mean it will be 100% on a different
drive.

> I tried twodifferent ones for disk 2. I prefer 720K disks
> as they go bad much more slowly

make_fd.bat only works with 1.44mb HD floppies.

Cheers,
Steven

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