Re: Installation - Driver Floppy Error

["Ken M. Mevand" <geekabyte@yahoo.com>]

yes, this is the slink distribution. its a CD-ROM, sorry i forgot to mention
that.

i understand that there is 3 sections to be installed : the rescue disk, the
drivers floppy and the system base. it failed at the drivers floppy.

i used rawrite.exe to copy the drv1440.bin to a floppy disk and use that
during the installation, but it failed too.


----- Original Message -----
From: Eric G . Miller <egm2@jps.net>
To: 02 Debian <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: Installation - Driver Floppy Error


> 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?
>
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