Re: ? bug

["Chris Tillman" <tillman@voicetrak.com>]

On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 10:57:12AM -0700, GERALD SPENCE wrote:
> I have a Zenith 486-66 laptop that I had been running
> "potato" on quite well.  I wiped the harddrive and
> tried to install "woody" 3.0 vanilla (and later
> "compact").  The rescue disk behaves fine.  The root
> disk gives a load error on keyboard load(us-qwerty
> "error loading the keymap i386/qwerty/us.keymap from
> /etc/keymaps.tgz").  It then gives a warning about me
> having 9 meg of ram (which is true and will be made up
> for on swap).  Then it won't allow the hard drive to
> be partitioned do to "cfdisk has failed....." then
> suggests to wipe the partition table(which I did).  I
> have downloaded new images and rewrote the disks (even
> used new floppies).  Nothing has worked.  The hard
> drive is ok.  I can partition, format, and load DOS on
> it.  Any help you can give is appreciated.  I have
> tried everything I can think of.

Have you tried the idepci flavor?

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