Bug 82716 - unable to build a boot floppy
Summary: unable to build a boot floppy
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 82298
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 9
Hardware: athlon
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-01-25 06:46 UTC by John Mellor
Modified: 2008-01-17 17:49 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-02-21 18:51:23 UTC
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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.
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