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Re: Woody diskette install



On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 03:02:52PM -0500, Drogo Bumbleroot wrote:
> I'm trying to setup a P166 with woody via floppy since it won't boot from
> CD.
> 
> I've booted it with a rescue.img diskette.  It will eventually ask for
> another diskette while loading linux.bin
> 
> I thought the 2nd disk it was looking for was the root.img diskette.
> 
> Neither a root.img diskette nor a linux.bin diskette gets this machine to
> continue to boot.
> 
> Is there a known problem with any of the disk images?
> 
> (Yes, I am using rawrite2 to create the diskette out of the images.)
> 
> Thanks.

rescue.bin followed by root.bin works for me. Maybe you have a dodgy
floppy?

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