Re: Failed to extract Drivers floppy

[Mike Horansky <moho@cyclone.stanford.edu>]

Yabba Dabba  <kshaw@yeehaa.org> writes:

> I have a CD for debian 2.1. When I get to the point of installing
> the kernel after booting from the CD, it says "failed to extract
> drivers floppy". I've tried telling it exactly where to find the
> resc1440.bin and drv1440.bin files, and I've tried putting them on
> floppy download from www.debian.org (using rawrite2), but I stil get
> the error.  What can I do?

Does the machine have any system on it already, like an older version
of linux? If you switch virtual consoles (CONTROL-ALT-F-KEY) one of
the screens (maybe F3) should show error messages. Are there any?



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