Re: Floppy Installation
Hi, Patrick,
Obvious question first: Have you tried at least 3 different (hopefully
new) floppies to make sure the one you're using for the drivers floppy
isn't bad?
Other than that, I'm afraid I don't know.... :)
Cheers................
On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Patrick Lanphier wrote:
> I have attempted many times to get Debian installed with many
> different floppies using the command "dd if=??? of=/dev/fd0 bs=512
> conv=sync ; sync" to make the floppies. The rescue disk does just fine
> but when I have to put in the drivers disk at the "Install Operating
> System Kernel and Modules" prompt the floppy drive mounts but never
> reads. Any suggestions would be truly appreciated.
>
> architecture: i386
> model: Compaq Contura 4/25c
> memory: 20M
> scsi: none
> cd-rom: none
> network card: none
> pcmcia: none
>
> Patrick Lanphier
> Advanced Information Technologies
> The Pennsylvania State University
>
>
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