RE: Base14-10.bin is broken?
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- From what I've read of the boot-floppy mailing list archives from
debian, the boot floppies for potato are seriously broken. I got all
the way through the base part then it failed after disk 14. This
problem is one of the big reasons why the potato code freeze has been
rescheduled until January.
Charles H. Baker
Manager Student Microcomputer Labs
Charles-Baker@utc.edu
http://www.utc.edu/StudentMicroLabs/
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Servis [mailto:servis@purdue.edu]
> Sent: Friday, November 12, 1999 10:29 AM
> To: sls@datamart.com
> Cc: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Base14-10.bin is broken?
>
>
> *- On 12 Nov, sls wrote about "Base14-10.bin is broken?"
> > While attempting to install Debian 2.2 onto a Toshiba Satellite
> 2545CDS, I
> > got as far as Base14-10.bin, which is disk 10 of 12. The
> installer detects
> > that disk 10 is disk 1. I tried re-downloading from a different
> site, but
> > that didn't work. I have been using rawrite2 to write each of my
> > floppy images to disk. Any ideas?
> >
>
> Without having any background knowledge of how the base disks are
> setup it sounds like a bug in some routine that checks the image
> name. Perhaps it is only looking at the first digit of the disk
> number since I don't think the slink base disks went above 10. Try
> sticking in disk 11 or 12 and see what it thinks they are. The
> boot disks are the primary reason for the Potato release delay so
> bugs like this would not be a suprise.
>
> An alternative is to install the slink base system and then do an
> upgrade to Potato from that.
>
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