> The part of your message "end up with a unusable RH" is too vague for me
to
> diagnose, but I would be willing to bet that your install went okay,
except
> that it didn't properly detect some piece of hardware or something.
> I know this may sound elementary, but have you considered replacing the
floppy
> drive, or possibly installing LILO on the hard drive itself? Are you using
the
> same boot disk every time?
Thank you Jonathan and Robert for your comments.
There is nothing wrong with the floppy drive itself. When install crashes
upon creating the boot floppy, I can capture anacdump.txt on the floppy I
had inserted to create the boot floppy. It seems from the anacdump.txt that
grub-install didn't work, so I have no GRUB or LILO anywhere, that is why I
say my RH is unusable. No boot floppy and no boot loader, I am stuck.
> What type of computer and network card do you have and what seems to be
> wrong with your installation?
My computer includes
- an ABIT SA6R motherboard (i815e chipset),
- HPT370 RAID is disabled in the BIOS,
- a single drive IBM 60GXP 40GB as master on IDE1 (hda)
- a HP9300 CD-RW drive as slave.
- an ASUS V7700 Geforce2 32MB
- 2 NICs :
eth0 is an "el cheapo" D-Link Realtek-compatible 10MBps connected to
a cable-modem in DHCP
eth1 is an "el cheapo" D-Link Realtek-compatible 10/100 MBps to
which I attribute a static IP.
- Sound hardware is a SBLive (not 5.1)
- Pinnacle Systems StudioDV Firewire card.
> Did you get any error messages to the screen or the log files? Does it
seem
> to boot okay? Can you see the network?
>
> As far as creating a boot disk, does anyone know how to do this from the
> command prompt instead of from the buggy RH install process?
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Rob
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lorenzo Sandini
> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 4:21 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: cannot make boot floppy
>
>
> Well I thought my RH7.2 wouldn't install because I couldn't configure it,
> but it seems I have an hardware issue here.
>
> I am doing a plain KDE workstation install on a pentium 3 computer, empty
> hard drive, and all is fine until the step where I make a boot floppy. I
> just get an error "couldn't create boot floppy", so I skip this step and
end
> up with a unusable RH. Seems like GRUB and LILO won't install on my MBR
> either.
>
> I tried Mandrake 8.1 and exactly the same problem regarding the floppy,
> while LILO is installed correctly to the MBR and I boot correctly.
>
> Finally I tried Debian 2.2.5r and bam, same thing, it won't create the
boot
> floppy, but LILO is installed correctly like in Mandrake.
>
> Any idea ?
>
> I have just one floppy drive, and the other is disabled in the BIOS.
> everything works fine under windows.
>
> Lorenzo
>
>
>
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