Re: 4.9 boot floppies help

From: Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. (kdk_at_daleco.biz)
Date: 12/13/03

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    To: Al Leslie <alleslie@hotmail.com>
    
    

    Al Leslie wrote:

    >
    > i have Award Modular BIOS v 4.41 PG (c) 1984-96 (cd-rom Bootable),
    > Pent 133Mhz 1.2 Gig and 32 Megs 3com nic. no mouse.
    > i downloaded 4.9 in 2 .iso images and setup some floppies for booting.
    > the Kern.flp disk executes fine and asks for Mfsroot.flp. but this
    > disks returns
    > zf_read unexpected EOF and prompts a shutdown or reboot.
    > I made the disks with rawrite on a Win Me Toshiba laptop.
    >
    > can someone shed some light on this?
    >
    > Thanks
    >

    The best place for this is question@ instead of newbies@,
    (it'll get more answers there, among other things.)

    When you say "I made the disks with rawrite", you're saying
    I made the CD's with rawrite, or the floppies?

    For floppies, fdimage (in the tools directory on the FTP
    server, possibly on one of your CD's, I dunno) is the tool.

    Format a new floppy and try again?

    DTH, but HTH :-)

    Kevin Kinsey

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