Re: Making a rescue floppy under SuSE 9.1

From: Godzilla (Godzilla_at_Monsters.org)
Date: 07/23/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 19:02:30 -0500

Peter James wrote:

> Using Yast I'm trying to format and make a rescue floppy. Each time,
> after attempting to format and write to the floppy I get the following
> error message:
> "An error occurred while copying the image file to the floppy disk. Verify
> that a valid floppy medium is in the drive and that you have root
> permissions then try again"
> I assumed that I had used a faulty floppy and tried 3 disks and each time
> the same error message. Thinking that this was something that should be
> done as root, I looged out as user, logged into KDE as root and tried
> again. The result was the same error message. The three floppies I used
> all checked out as OK under Windows XP. Now I know that this really
> proves very little, but surely the disks should be OK. Can anyone advise
> me as to what to do next? Thanks.

This may not be of much assistance, but I experienced the same thing in SuSE
9.0 Should some knowledgeable Linuxite put forth a solution to your
problem, it should probably work for me as well. :-)

Godzilla

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