Re: Installation - Driver Floppy Error

["Eric G . Miller" <egm2@jps.net>]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 12:38:13PM +0800, Ken M. Mevand wrote:
> hi list,
>     i tried installing Debian from a disk i got in a book "Installing Debian
> GNU/Linux". when i got the "Installing Kernel and System Base", it
> complaints failed installing the driver floppy. is this because the disk is
> bad, or something else?  can i skip this step?
> 
>     my system is a Cyrix 300 with 32Mb RAM, hda-4Gb (Windows), hdb-8Gb
> (Linux)

Maybe disk is bad, and no you can't skip it. This is a CD-ROM, correct?
I can't think why it'd prompt you for a floppy then.  The drivers should
be on the install CD-ROM ("drivers_tgz" or something).  Maybe you could
clarify what your doing.  Is this an old "Slink" disk?


-- 
/bin/sh ~/.signature:
Command not found