bad floppy disks

[Bill Schoolcraft]

At Mon, 8 May 2006 it looks like Kevin Kinsey composed:

> Marty Landman wrote:
> 
> > This is giving me problems for some reason. I've put the floppy images on
> > a
> > Debian box in my office and dd'd onto a floppy. The boot.flp worked but
> > then with the kern1.flp - which I dd'd onto the same floppy as boot.flp
> > had gone
> > on, get this after a while:
> > 
> > zf_read: fill error
> > 
> > readin failed
> > 
> > elf32_loadimage: read failed
> > Unable to load a kernel!
> 
> 
> Yeah, hard to know.  In our tests, failure rate for floppy
> diskettes, straight from a local "discount" retailer, is
> in the nominal 60% range.....
> 
> You could keep trying... <?>
> 

Just last night I was just trying to get three good floppies from a
brand new package of 10 to install on a Fujitsu Lifebook with only a
floppy and could not believe the failure rate.

Finally got 6.0 installed via NFS after the floppy experience.
Which poses another issue for another email about having two ISO's
available for an NFS install mounted on another system.

They also seemed to be made of flimsier plastic for when I used to
fold them in half in disgust it used to take more effort than it
does now!

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