Bug 82716

Summary:	unable to build a boot floppy
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	John Mellor <john>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description John Mellor 2003-01-25 06:46:27 UTC

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Description of problem:
After answering yes to the question about building a boot floppy, and inserting
a known-good floppy and continuing, the floppy is observed to be in use for
approximately 2 minutes, after which an error message is displayed about it
being a bad floppy.  The floppy is known to be good.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Attempt to construct a boot floppy during a normal install


Actual Results:  Construction of boot floppy not completed.  This leaves the
system unbootable.

Expected Results:  Usable boot floppy.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2003-01-28 05:59:29 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 82298 ***

Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:51:23 UTC

Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.