Have tried numerous disks, with no luck, thanks for the tip tho, It irritates me that the comp wouldn't recognize a backpack cd player either, perchance i have a machine that's fouled?
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *- On 22 Mar, Go go Gadget email! wrote about "Floppy install" > > Greetings, > > I've been attempting to install linux onto an IBM Thinkpad 755CE with you > > floppy install instructions/software, and everything has been running > > smoothly, until i attempt to install the kernel. It asks for the rescue > > disk, and once inserted and ok is hit, it refuses to mount the rescue > > disk. I'm hoping you can clue me into what i might be able to do to get > > this guy operating. > > Thanks! > > > > Have you tried more than one disk? The number one problem with disk > installs is bad disks. Even if it is a brand new disk, try a different > disk. Because you are writing raw data to a disk which includes the > formating and filesystem the disk has to be perfect. Unlike using a > format command which will find bad sectors and mark them as such. > > -- > Brian > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Never criticize anybody until you have walked a mile in their shoes, > because by that time you will be a mile away and have their shoes." > - unknown > > Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
