installation problem

["Anderson, James H \[IT\]" <james.h.anderson@ssmb.com>]

Gateway Solo 9100

I have no idea whether the following problem is laptop dependent...

After creating the boot floppy and rebooting with it in place, instead of
getting to the "creating a root passwd" part, I get a bunch of

	Usage: /sbin/getty ...

messages, followed by

	INIT: ID "S" respawning too fast: disables for 5 minutes

This recurs every 5 minutes. I apparently never get out of single user mode.
It appears that getty is being invoked with the wrong args.

Any suggestions greatly appreciated!

jim

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