On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Jaiwant Mulik wrote:

> On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Jaiwant Mulik wrote:
> >
> > > While either of boot1.fs and bootlap1.fs floppies for installation, I get
> > > the following error:
> > >
> > > ...
> > > 1701933+2171712@@@@@@@@@read text : Input/output error
> > > ...
> > >
> > > and ofcourse nothing works after that.
> >
> > That indicates bad media. Try it again with a different floppy.
>
> I did try with 3 different floppies (2 brand new) ... same problem. I
> previously had RH Linux on this machine, so I know that the floppy drive
> is fine.

And you get the EXACT same error each time? You should test the
floppies for bad blocks before you declare they're good. It's not
uncommon to find only one or two good ones out of a box. It wouldn't
hurt to clean the drive, either.