3 questions

dear Enigma-l,


The whole thing started when I tried loading 
ayttm-0.3.0-1.i386.rpm. A large dependency problem cropped up. The 
net told me that there was a software called APT that was used to 
solve dep probs. After lot of hassle, i managed a forced install 
(my fault, no hard feelings)of ayttm which beautifully ruined my 
rpm libraries by upgrading (!!) them to 4.0.4. no GNOrpm! no 
KPackage!!

Post-lots-of-heroics, i have now decided to reinstall. But, 
somehow my floppy drive has gone kaput (is it possible after 
accidentally ejecting a floppy without unmounting it?)...though it 
did NOT happen instanlty after that accident, i am unable to boot 
RH 7.2 ( i was using a bootdisk). Reinstalling seems to be the 
only option, because RH setup does not allow the option of 
installing a boot loader in upgrade mode w/o an "upgrade in the 
Kernel". I tried LOADLIN, but big problem is, that i don't have a 
/boot (which inci, RH setup had not allowed when I tried to 
install RH 7.2 at the end of my 20 GB SAMSUNG UATA, strangely, the 
last one of the 4 partitions never got written to ptable, i had to 
abandon /boot!!). Any ideas as to:

1. What happened to my flop...(of course not)
2. How to try and load linux now? at least a way to salvage my 
initrd and bzimage will do, i guess.
3. is there a bug regarding the partitioning scheme in RH 7.2 
setup that restricts the schema i tried? if not, any suggestions 
as to what went wrong?

(I have to add that my RH 7.2 nash was running stably.)

please HELP!

Suprotip
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