boot-floppy success story for potato...
Just wanted to send a quick note about a recent boot-floppy install of
potato on an older Pentium 133. To summarize, it worked mostly without a
hitch. Good going.
The one little problem I had was I made the / partition 50Mb (as /usr,
/var and /home were all to be on separate partitions). Anyway, the
reconstruction of base_2_2.tgz kept failing but I had no idea why.
Finally it dawned on me there wasn't enough space. Anyway, after
recreating the partitions with / being much larger, everything was hunky
dory. I suppose there could be any number of reasons why the reassembly
of base_2_2.tgz would fail, but if there's any way to report more
meaningful error messages it could help. I suppose there must be a way
to put /target on one of the other partitions, but it wasn't clear how
and since I got it working I left it alone.
Once again, good work!
p.s. I'm not on this list, so you'll have to cc me if you want to
respond to me -- I just wanted to report the success to y'all.
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