problem with one of the install images?

[Ron Nelson <rnelson@geekbox.mpr.org>]

I have been having problems with one of the images used to install
debian gnu/linux.  when I try to install the drivers floppy, I get the
following output:

    Installing the drivers floppy...
    floppy0: disk absent or changed during operation
    end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 1
    bread in fat_access failed

    gunzip: stdin: I/O error
    Error in archive format.

    Something went wrong.  ...

I have pulled this image down from both ftp.debian.org and
ftp.cdrom.com, and used different floppy disks as well.  (Of course, I
am not yanking the disk out halfway through the read.)  

The hardware I am trying to install this on is a IBM Thinkpad 500.  I
do not specify floppy=thinkpad on boot, as the system will not boot if
I do.  However, with out drivers, I can't get the PCMCIA network card
to be recognized.  This puts a crimp on the ftp install.

Thanks for any help,

Ron

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Ron Nelson
rnelson@mpr.org