installation problem with boot magazine cd (was: Re: no sub

[Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>]

On Mon, Jan 26, 1998 at 05:31:00AM -0800, pianoman wrote:
> hi, i don't know where to start.......it amazes me how intelligent
> people can b so stupid.

Hi pianoman!

Let us try to find it out, shall we?

> who came up with a dumb idea to make a file that should go on a floppy
> disk larger then 1.3 meg ???

Mmmh. Could you please be more specific about the file you mean? I assume
taht you mean the disk files for booting and the base disks.

Well, I see the following:

-rw-r--r--    1 10248    1608     1228800 Oct 15 10:48 base-1.bin
-rw-r--r--    1 10248    1608     1228800 Oct 15 10:48 base-2.bin
-rw-r--r--    1 10248    1608     1228800 Oct 15 10:48 base-3.bin
-rw-r--r--    1 10248    1608     1228800 Oct 15 10:48 base-4.bin
-rw-r--r--    1 10248    1608     1141760 Oct 15 10:48 base-5.bin
-rw-r--r--    1 10248    1608     1228800 Oct 15 10:48 drv1200.bin
-rw-r--r--    1 10248    1608     1474560 Oct 15 10:48 drv1440.bin
-rw-r--r--    1 10248    1608     1228800 Oct 15 10:48 resc1200.bin
-rw-r--r--    1 10248    1608     1474560 Oct 15 10:48 resc1440.bin
-rw-r--r--    1 10248    1608      690316 Oct 15 10:48 root.bin

So they fit nicely on a 3 1/2'' floppy disk using the rawrite command.
The base disks and the *1220.bin files also fit on a 5 1/4'' floppy disk.
Perhaps you see something other than me?

> no wonder there is no charge for linux software......it is impossible to
> install.

But some other had success in it. Here are a lot of people who are willing
to help you with the installation procedure, so just ask your questions and
with chance there is someone who can answer it.

> i wasted all night to install linux from a boot magazine cd,.....what a
> joke.

Hmm. I do not know if there is something special to be aware of with the
boot disk.

You have tried to install debian, did you? How far did you come before
things began to break? Every piece of information is useful.

Regards,
Marcus

PS: Please answer to me and debian-user. debian-faq is not the appropriate
list for this discussion. There are only few people on the faq list, but
hundreds on the user list, so the chance is higher to get a positive
response there. Thank you.

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