Stuart Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sorry to reply to myself, but I've come to the conclusion after further
> testing that my floppy drive is 100% busted and I'm not going to be able
> to do anything useful off it. I also can't (practically) replace it. I
> do have a fully functioning Red
At 09:45 AM 9/14/00 -0400, you wrote:
Sorry to reply to myself, but I've come to the conclusion after
further
testing that my floppy drive is 100% busted and I'm not going to
be able
to do anything useful off it. I also can't (practically) replace it.
Bugger!
Go buy a
From: Stuart Ballard [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 10:20 AM
To: Anderson, Tim TL33E
Subject: Re: Potato install fails to load ROOT image
"Anderson, Tim TL33E" wrote:
>
> Floppy dri
Sorry to reply to myself, but I've come to the conclusion after
further
testing that my floppy drive is 100% busted and I'm not going to be
able
to do anything useful off it. I also can't (practically) replace it.
I
Floppy drives are about $10 now aren't they?
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 04:41:33PM -0400, Stuart Ballard wrote:
> Sorry to reply to myself, but I've come to the conclusion after further
> testing that my floppy drive is 100% busted and I'm not going to be able
> to do anything useful off it. I also can't (practically) replace it. I
> do have a
Stuart Ballard wrote:
>
> I'm trying to install potato from floppies (onto a laptop that doesn't
> have a CD drive). 100% reliably and repeatably, I get the following
> messages when I insert the ROOT floppy:
[snip]
> I've obtained this exact same error across 3 different root floppies
> (the thir
Julio Merino wrote:
>
> Maybe all your floppies have phisical errors... hey, that could
> happen, it happened to me. Try to buy new floppy disks.
>
> If this don't work, try to clean the floppy drive; get it out of the
> laptop and clean it internally (BE CAREFUL). If this doesn't solve the
> pro
Maybe all your floppies have phisical errors... hey, that could
happen, it happened to me. Try to buy new floppy disks.
If this don't work, try to clean the floppy drive; get it out of the
laptop and clean it internally (BE CAREFUL). If this doesn't solve the
problem, I could say yo to buy a new o
I'm trying to install potato from floppies (onto a laptop that doesn't
have a CD drive). 100% reliably and repeatably, I get the following
messages when I insert the ROOT floppy:
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 799
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 799
invalid c
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