Re: Woody not ready, methinks
"Michael" == Michael Rudmin <mike_rudmin@yahoo.com> writes:
Michael> I decided to download the disk images.
Michael> Attempt 1- Downloaded 20 images. Took a few retries, but
Michael> that's what a slow permanent link is good for. Installed
Michael> them on my hard disk on a vfat partition. Went to
Michael> install. Whoops! There is no provision for using disk
Michael> images from the hard disk. Have either tarball it or
Michael> RAWRITE it. [*That*, IMHO, should change.)
Michael> Attempt 2-RAWrote the disks. Went to install. Got to
Michael> Disk 11 -- it was no good. Had to bomb out and try
Michael> again.
Michael> Attempt 3-ReRawrote Disk 11. Went back to install again.
Michael> Got through the entire loading procedure. Computer
Michael> created Tar ball out of disks, went to validate it, and
Michael> discovered -- invalid Tarball.
Michael> Attempt 4-trying the impossible: downloading a Tarball
Michael> over Windoze and my slow line.
If you have a weblink that will work with linux why not just use a net
install. The problem above is probably not with woody, but with your
floppy drive. Floppies are notoriously unreliable, and the install
manual (for Potato) warns against using them.
I used a floppy install recently and found that I had similar
problems, but I could fix them by using different floppies and
different drives in every case.
Michael> It looks to me like Woody is not quite ready for install.
My experience has been the opposite.
Cheers!
Shyamal
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