hi, im installing (or trying to) potato on an older p100 i have and everything was going well. i chose the rescue floppy installation method (which i know isn't as convienient as with a CD) and had gotten to the point where it was time to install my base system.
the first time i tried it, all seemed ok -- up until disk 5, which almost completed and then fed me an error message. The error message was 'Success', which seemed a little strange. dbootstrap then proceeded to try to inflate base2_2.tgz and of course failed (as it hadn't completed creating it yet). Well, I figured my drive or my diskette was messed up which had happened before, so I went to my other computer to re rawrite a new disk 5 and began installing the base system again. this time, the same error happened, but with disk 4; it then, on my next try, happened with disk 3 and then disk 2, always the same error message. it continued to choke this way on disk 2 for some time. now, it won't finish disk 1, though it no longer gives me the bizarre 'Success' error. it just starts trying to gunzip base2_2.tgz right off the bat... is this a bug with dbootstrap, or has someone else had a similar error? the success error seemed to happen right before it would normally finish copying, so i thought maybe dbootstrap was misinterpreting a success response from the copying subroutine as an error and displaying it. i tried looking at the disks themselves by switching to the virtual console and mounting /dev/fd0 to see if i might be able to do it manually, but the disks don't appear to be in a mountable format. im confused. i tried looking around in the backlogs of the user-list and couldn't find any references, but i hope one of you can shed some light on this. thanks...
