Re: Unidentified subject!
Gary McKinney wrote:
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> Hmmm - I just installed Slink from base floppies last Sunday without a
> problem. What is the date of the base floppies and where did you
> download the files??? Also - did you try to write the offending
> floppy again on a new floppy disk (seems the floppies can not have
> *any* defects or weak spots as the install will fail - I had to right
> the last one several times until I found a floppy the system was happy
> with <grin>)...
I'm sorry if I wasn't clear. The base floppies themselves are just
fine. However, if you look at section 5.2 of the install documentation
in HTML, there are only links to the first seven of the eight base
floppies.
Fortunately, there's no index.html in that directory, so you can view its
contents and get the last floppy image.
> >Just came across another ENORMOUS omission in the install docs:
> >
> >THERE'S NO LINK TO BASE FLOPPY #8! (From section 5.2)
> >
> >How did that happen? I mean, I know Intel has only 7, but this is a
> >pretty big error to have gone unnoticed so long! (Or am I the first
> >person to install Slink from base floppies? :-)
I've attached a trivial diff which fixes the omission.
Where is the source for this documentation? (Is it LaTeX? SGML?) Is
there some way to verify these types of errors don't get into the potato
docs?
Zeen,
Adam Powell http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/
Thomas B. King Assistant Professor of Materials Engineering
77 Massachusetts Ave. Rm. 4-117 Phone (617) 452-2086
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA Fax (617) 253-5418
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+++ ch-install-methods.en.html Wed Dec 1 14:00:14 1999
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<p>
-<dt><code><a href="base2_1.tgz">base2_1.tgz</a></code>, or <code><a href="base14-1.bin">base14-1.bin</a></code>, <code><a href="base14-2.bin">base14-2.bin</a></code>, <code><a href="base14-3.bin">base14-3.bin</a></code>, <code><a href="base14-4.bin">base14-4.bin</a></code>, <code><a href="base14-5.bin">base14-5.bin</a></code>, <code><a href="base14-6.bin">base14-6.bin</a></code>, <code><a href="base14-7.bin">base14-7.bin</a></code> -- the base system images</dt>
+<dt><code><a href="base2_1.tgz">base2_1.tgz</a></code>, or <code><a href="base14-1.bin">base14-1.bin</a></code>, <code><a href="base14-2.bin">base14-2.bin</a></code>, <code><a href="base14-3.bin">base14-3.bin</a></code>, <code><a href="base14-4.bin">base14-4.bin</a></code>, <code><a href="base14-5.bin">base14-5.bin</a></code>, <code><a href="base14-6.bin">base14-6.bin</a></code>, <code><a href="base14-7.bin">base14-7.bin</a></code>, <code><a href="base14-8.bin">base14-8.bin</a></code> -- the base system images</dt>
<dd>
These files contain the base system which will be installed on your
Linux partition during the installation process. This is the bare
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