RE: Woody diskette install
-----Original Message-----
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.
From: Pigeon [mailto:jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk]
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 6:10 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Woody diskette install
rescue.bin followed by root.bin works for me. Maybe you have a dodgy floppy?
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Pigeon
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Quite possible. I'll try again on Monday. The machine is at work.
Thanks.
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