HD Install :: Boot Failed

Hi,

i have a really old laptop with a floppy drive and a CD drive.
I burnt the DSL cd imge to a cd and copied the files off the cd onto the laptop. I then made a boot disk with rawrite, from the image in the KNOPPIX folder. When i try and load DSL.... i just get it saying Debin Linux - Boot Failed

Any Ideas

Floppy disks are notorious for going south..
Did you try a fresh floppy disk? (rawrite another copy?)

Does the laptop boot from the CDR ?
(set cd device to boot before hd in BIOS )

Did you md5sum check your .iso download ?
( Could be a bad image download )

Usually, when I see boot failures from floppy, it's a sector 0 thing.
Another floppy, fresh out of the box, has helped before.

What version of DSL are you using?
What laptop are you using?

73
ke4nt

Thanks

U were right in one....
Duff floppy disk!!!

original here.