I gather I am exceptionally dim or have exceptionally poor hardware. I am near to giving up on this. I had a working Debian on the Thinkpad570, then started again in order to get the NIC installed. Now I can't even complete an install. When Installing the base system, it appears to complete, then gives "debboot exited with an error" so I cannot make a bootable system. In addition, the make a boot floppy always fails (I did originally succeed, on the first install, so I know the floppy _was_ working). In fact, trying to make a boot floppy now actually destroys the floppys in about a fifth of a second. If I then put them into another machine, I cannot mount them - gives an error "Could not mount device. The reported error was: mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified" I've tried this with floppys that do mount in the other machine immediately prior to trying to write a boot floppy. It zaps them instantly! Might be an application for this...
Seriously, can anyone shed any light on what to do about either of the above? -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
