Even though floppies are still supported for the last
three remaining users of PC-98 it isn't common to get questions about floppies. Instead answer with the most likely cause of the problem. Approved by: bcr (mentor)
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<qandaentry>
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<question id="boot-floppy-strangeness">
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<para>Strange things happen when I boot the install floppy!
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<para>Strange things happen when I boot the install disk!
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What is happening?</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para>If you are seeing things like the machine grinding to a
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halt or spontaneously rebooting when you try to boot the
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install floppy, here are three questions to ask
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yourself:</para>
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<orderedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>Did you use a new, freshly-formatted, error-free
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floppy (preferably a brand-new one straight out of the
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box, as opposed to the magazine cover disk that has been
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lying under the bed for the last three years)?</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Did you download the floppy image in binary (or
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image) mode? (do not be embarrassed, even the best of us
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have accidentally downloaded a binary file in ASCII mode
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at least once!)</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>If you are using &windows; 95 or
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&windows; 98 did you run <command>fdimage</command>
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or <command>rawrite</command> in pure DOS mode? These
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operating systems can interfere with programs that write
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directly to hardware, which the disk creation program
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does; even running it inside a DOS shell in the GUI can
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cause this problem.</para>
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</listitem>
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</orderedlist>
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&os; installer, make sure that the SHA256 hash of
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the image matches the one on the website. If you
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accidently downloaded the disk image in binary (or
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image) mode the will be corrupted. (Do not be embarrassed,
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even the best of us have accidentally downloaded a binary
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file in ASCII mode at least once!)</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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