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Re: Installing by floppy



On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 07:16:30PM +0100, Stephen J. Thompson wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Can anyone help me please, I am trying to install potato via floppy disc on
> a machine and I am am finding that it takes over four hours from when I ask
> to install a module until the module list is displayed. On tty3 all it keeps
> displaying is "open error" over and over again. I have tried installing
> slink on this machine from floppy and it works fine.
> 
> Any suggestions welcome.

If you have <8MB get the low-mem-floppies.
Check your floppies again ( AIFAIK this should work: diff /dev/fd0 image)

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