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.
> 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?
>
> --
> Pigeon
>
> Be kind to pigeons
> Get my GPG key here:
> http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
It was my rescue floppy that wasn't good... The machine is up and running
now.
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