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Originally Posted by
bill szabo
does have floppy drive which I have never used and do have 'boot' no 'root" disk- tried booting with floppy after powering down - system steps right around the floppy drive though it floopy is showing in setup and is first in the boot sequence - my guess is the drives are on scsci controllers and may not see the floppy- checking my wiring next -do remember switching machines after the hardware had issues - may have led to floppy issue.
thanks!
will use the -n opition as you suggested.
The likelihood of successfully booting from a diskette is very low. I went through this process recently, and was unable to create a btld diskette for 5.0.5. I ended up calling one of the diskette manufacturers and their tech people told be that the life expectancy of a diskette is less than 10 years, and that they stopped manufacturing diskettes more than 10 years ago.
SCSI disks have a write protect jumper.
What I would do, write protect your boot disk, change the scsi id from 0 to 1, get a new/reconditioned disk scsi 0, and do a fresh install on it, Go through the process of adding the original disk as a second disk, and copy the data to the new drive.
When adding the second disk, do not create any new files ystems, and rename the divisions so that they do not conflict with the divisions on drive 0 that have the same names.