Re: Potato install fails to load ROOT image
Maybe all your floppies have phisical errors... hey, that could
happen, it happened to me. Try to buy new floppy disks.
If this don't work, try to clean the floppy drive; get it out of the
laptop and clean it internally (BE CAREFUL). If this doesn't solve the
problem, I could say yo to buy a new one...
Do any other disks work fine?
Bye!
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 11:17:40AM -0400, Stuart Ballard wrote:
> I'm trying to install potato from floppies (onto a laptop that doesn't
> have a CD drive). 100% reliably and repeatably, I get the following
> messages when I insert the ROOT floppy:
>
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 799
> end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 799
> invalid compressed format (err=1)<5>VFS: Insert root floppy and press
> ENTER
>
> (pressing enter at this point appears to try to mount the disk as the
> root filesystem itself, rather than copying it to the ramdisk, so I get
> a bunch of other error messages...)
>
> I've obtained this exact same error across 3 different root floppies
> (the third one I actually re-downloaded the image, to make sure) and two
> different rescue floppies. I'm out of ideas. Anyone?
>
> Thanks very much in advance,
>
> Stuart.
>
> PS in case it helps, I'm trying to install on an AST Ascentia 800N
> laptop, which I believe is 486-based.
>
>
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