I remember a while back someone running into the problem
of sysinstall canceling after 3 tries without even accessing
the floppy drive.

I've just now installed SLS and am having this same problem.
Furthermore, when I try to use mtools, I get an error message
to the effect of 
"Can't access fd0. No support for 18 track 2 heads 80 sector
floppies".
I have one 1.44Meg 3.5' IDE floppy.
Mtools works with the DOS partition of my HD.

Does anyone have any advice ?
I'm just at beginner at this, so please excuse me if this is
really obvious. Thanks in advance.

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