Chris Owen said: > Oh dear this is not going very well. > > I now find that it's not possible to mount any floppy (as the > installation program attempts to do when I run "Install the kernel and > driver modules"). If I go "mount /dev/fd0 /floppy", it churns the disk > for ages then comes back with "invalid argument". It's not the floppy, > I've tried several good ones; and in fact the one I'm trying to mount is > the one I booted from!
it's possible the floppy went bad i've had this happen before. Also another possiblity, something that happened to be is a bad floppy conroller, I had an Abit BP6, which despite it being a piece of shit when it came to running dual processors, it also had a shitty floppy controller. It would only read floppies between reboots. That is, insert a floppy, read it, umount and eject and insert another, the system thinks the previous disk is inserted! Happened under both DOS and linux. I think the controller also killed some floppy disks too. The same drive on a different motherboard(Same cable too I think) worked fine .. Can you remove the hdd from the laptop? It may be easier to install on a desktop then move the disk to the laptop if thats possible, some laptops removing the disk is really easy(e.g. Thinkpad 600), others seem nearly impossible(e.g. Thinkpad T20). > > I have 16MB RAM plus an active 64MB swap space, which should be enough to > avoid memory problems I should have thought... that should be enough. plenty infact I think for an install. You would probably run into issues if it was 8MB or less though. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
