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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... <?>

KDK

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