Re: floppy install problems
I installed slink on my 486. 210mb hd and 12 mgs ram, from floppy. I was trying to
install slack, but just couldn't get it to work, so I tried debian and all went fine.
If you are making the floppies from windoz, as I did, it is important to do so from dos,
and not a dos window, and I would reformat every floppy in dos. If all else fails, I
could snail-mail you my floppies.
russell
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> Alternatively, a PLIP (parallel port IP) link to another sytem might
> also work.
>
> I'd probably vote for an HD swap myself.
>
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 05:14:53PM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> >
> > You might try coping the files to floppies that have
> > been formated on the target machine's drive. Or
> > transfer the target machine's floppy drive to the
> > machine doing the copying and then move it back to the
> > tarket machine. Methinks floppy interchange may be a
> > problem.
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------
> > To all,
> >
> > I have tried to install Debian from floppy disks several times on an old
> > IBM 486 ps2 machine. The machine boots fine with the rescue disk fine.
> > The point at which the install fails is during the mounting of the
> > rescue disk to continue with the base install. I have made several
> > new rescue floppys thinking it may be the media. I have only chosen
> > to install from floppy because the machine has no cdrom and only one
> > isa slot for expansion. It does have a 300 mb hard and 8 mb of ram.
> > Thanks for any help in advance.
> >
> >
> >
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