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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.

> 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
> 
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It was my rescue floppy that wasn't good...  The machine is up and running
now.

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