On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: [ snip ]
: > Sounds like that disk 5 was bad. Use another disk and rebuild (rawrite2) : > disk 5 and try the install from the beginning. As the docs say, most : > install problems stem from bad disks. : : Hmm - I found this as well - a friend made the various floppies with : rawrite2 and started installing. I had to nip up to my room and dd three : of them again; is this perhaps a W95 <spit> problem (not detecting the : problem)? I have found that since disk 5 does not fill the entire disk I need to FAT format the floppy before rawriting to it. I've never had disk 5 fail when I've formatted it beforehand (and thrown away crappy disks :) but I have seen the problem a few times when I've been in a hurry and haven't put down a fresh filesystem first. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
