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Bug 174125
[patch] faq: remove boot-floppy-strangeness question
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Derek Wood
on 2012-12-04 19:50:00 UTC
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>diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml >index 81f334b..4caa8ff 100644 >--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml >+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml >@@ -1389,46 +1389,6 @@ > </qandaentry> > > <qandaentry> >- <question id="boot-floppy-strangeness"> >- <para>Strange things happen when I boot the install floppy! >- What is happening?</para> >- </question> >- >- <answer> >- <para>If you are seeing things like the machine grinding to a >- halt or spontaneously rebooting when you try to boot the >- install floppy, here are three questions to ask >- yourself:</para> >- >- <orderedlist> >- <listitem> >- <para>Did you use a new, freshly-formatted, error-free >- floppy (preferably a brand-new one straight out of the >- box, as opposed to the magazine cover disk that has been >- lying under the bed for the last three years)?</para> >- </listitem> >- >- <listitem> >- <para>Did you download the floppy image in binary (or >- image) mode? (do not be embarrassed, even the best of us >- have accidentally downloaded a binary file in ASCII mode >- at least once!)</para> >- </listitem> >- >- <listitem> >- <para>If you are using &windows; 95 or >- &windows; 98 did you run <command>fdimage</command> >- or <command>rawrite</command> in pure DOS mode? These >- operating systems can interfere with programs that write >- directly to hardware, which the disk creation program >- does; even running it inside a DOS shell in the GUI can >- cause this problem.</para> >- </listitem> >- </orderedlist> >- </answer> >- </qandaentry> >- >- <qandaentry> > <question id="no-install-cdrom"> > <para>I booted from my ATAPI CD-ROM, but the install program > says no CD-ROM is found. Where did it go?</para>
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