RE: frozen boot floppies -- can't read disks-1.44/driver-3.bin
The install guides say bad media are the leading source of installation
problem.
Try another diskette for the 3rd disk.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: offby1@potato.hanchrow.org [mailto:offby1@potato.hanchrow.org]On
> Behalf Of Eric Hanchrow
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 11:33 AM
> To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org
> Subject: frozen boot floppies -- can't read disks-1.44/driver-3.bin
>
>
> I copied the images from
> ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/d
> isks-1.44,
> and booted a VMware (http://www.vmware.com) virtual machine from
> rescue.bin, formatted the hard disk, and asked to install from the
> network. The setup program asked me to install the drivers,
> presumably so it could operate the network card. It happily read
> driver-1.bin and driver-2.bin, but as it was about done reading
> driver-3.bin, it complained about an I/O error. The Vmware machine
> also complained "Short read (expected 18432 got 3072)".
>
> Perhaps that particular file (disks-1.44/driver-3.bin) is bad?
>
> How can I help further debug this? If the problem is already known,
> I'd be happy to test the next batch of floppies.
>
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