On 22-Feb-99 Robert E. Bell wrote: > I get the same thing on my 560x with the Tecra disks. I'm also having > problems even making a boot floppy through the installation process. > It either gives gives an immediate error message "creation of boot floppy > failed..." or it spins around for awhile checking things and then fails. > And I have tried several disks at this point (all of which work on the > desktop). The one time it did work, it created the reboot-a-round. Is the > installation program (or Debian) particularly sensitive to the floppies? > I hear much about "bad" floppies, but other OSes don't seem to be > bothered by them. > > Any ideas? > > Btw, it seems like this is a pretty common occurrence with the Thinkpads. > Maybe once this gets figured out, we should write up something for the > FAQ-o-matic. I'll do it if I can get some people to check it for me. > > Thanks!
I read that IBM will be offering Linux with new ThinkPads, so perhaps they will have the information we require, even if it is not for free. -- Andrew
