At 3:52 PM +0200 21/10/00, Havard Eidnes wrote:
>Well, it now seems that the floppy drive has
>croaked on me, and it's no longer able to boot from diskette (all I
>get is "READ TIMEOUT").
>
>I checked the price for a new floppy drive, and, well, "it's not
>PC prices" (they wanted 1350 NOK -- more than 140 USD -- eww).
>

new floppy *drive*?

write yourself a new floppy boot disk! i noticed that floppy boot 
disks get "tired" as well, and i find a 'new' disk and write the same 
image to it again. then boot.

sweet as :)

c.
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