Re: Floppy install

[servis@purdue.edu]

*- On 22 Mar, Go go Gadget email! wrote about "Floppy install"
> Greetings,
> I've been attempting to install linux onto an IBM Thinkpad 755CE with you 
> floppy install instructions/software, and everything has been running 
> smoothly, until i attempt to install the kernel. It asks for the rescue 
> disk, and once inserted and ok is hit, it refuses to mount the rescue 
> disk. I'm hoping you can clue me into what i might be able to do to get 
> this guy operating. 
> Thanks!
> 

Have you tried more than one disk?  The number one problem with disk
installs is bad disks.  Even if it is a brand new disk, try a different
disk.  Because you are writing raw data to a disk which includes the
formating and filesystem the disk has to be perfect.  Unlike using a
format command which will find bad sectors and mark them as such.

-- 
Brian 
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