Kenneth, Unfortunately I am unable to transfer drives due to the nature of the the hardware. I may try to transfer the disks to the partitioned drive though like you mentioned. I think I can get to the command line by hitting Alt+F4. Thanks for your help.
Tom Date sent: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 17:14:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: floppy install problems To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copies to: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > You might try coping the files to floppies that have > been formated on the target machine's drive. Or > transfer the target machine's floppy drive to the > machine doing the copying and then move it back to the > tarket machine. Methinks floppy interchange may be a > problem. > > ---------------------------------------------------- > To all, > > I have tried to install Debian from floppy disks > several times on an > old IBM 486 ps2 machine. The machine boots fine with > the rescue > disk fine. The point at which the install fails is > during the mounting > of the rescue disk to continue with the base install. > I have made > several new rescue floppys thinking it may be the > media. I have > only chosen to install from floppy because the machine > has no > cdrom and only one isa slot for expansion. It does > have a 300 mb > hard and 8 mb of ram. Thanks for any help in advance. > > > > ===== > Amateur Radio, when all else fails! > > http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze > > Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or ..... > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. > http://invites.yahoo.com >
