Floppy disks built with rawrite or dd are notorious for not working properly. I had to rebuild one of mine numerous times (back when I didn't have a BIOS that would boot from CDROM) when I was doing my first Debian install.
Make another one and see if the problem clears up... On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Jayson Baird wrote: > When using the rescue disk to install Debian from > floppies I get a CRC error when it begins to > decompress the kernel. I have put new memory in it, > new hdd, and still the same error. It does use an > older I/o card (it's a suped up 486, motherboard had > no I/O channels) so could it be that the error is in > the I/O card, or somewhere else? Any input would > help. Thanks. > > Jayson Baird > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > DO YOU YAHOO!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > +-----------------------------------+--------------------------------+ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Support Amateur Radio & Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | | "May the Source be with you." | +-----------------------------------+--------------------------------+ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | | http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
