On Mon, 12 May 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> Be careful when DOS formatting a floppy to see if format reports any bad
> areas. If so, toss the disk. Compuserve and AOL will be sending you an
> adequate supply for free in any case.
The disks they send you are junk. Don't bother with them.
--Ric
On Tue, 13 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote:
>
> DOS is more forgiving of bad disks than linux is. This is about the only
> "disk" problem you might have. The only one I've heard of so far. If you
> put it on a bad disk use another one. Don't use DOS as aguage of a good
> disk or bad disk, it might
DOS is more forgiving of bad disks than linux is. This is about the only
"disk" problem you might have. The only one I've heard of so far. If you
put it on a bad disk use another one. Don't use DOS as aguage of a good
disk or bad disk, it might be fine for DOS but not for linux.
Disable all t
I had no trouble with the base disks but I created them from another
system running Linux using dd.
The important thing is to use FRESHLY FORMATTED diskettes. Do not
overwrite a diskette with stuff on it. Use MS-DOS to format the diskette
and then use rawrite.
It is the boot disk (resc1440.bin)
I'm about to do the sameinstall frozen on a brand new system.
Whats the deal with the Base Disks, will they cause problems like
what happened below ?
Also, do problems still exist when rawriteing the base disks on a
dos/windows system ?
I know I had trouble with that before..its difficult to
Oh, I see. No, it never got to the installation menu .. it was still
text at that point. Told me I needed a swap partition to run the GUI
installation program ... then asks for the partition name or to
create one. I pressed enter and it kicked me back to the selection again
without creating the
Uhm, how do you tell the doggone boot disk that you want to run fdisk from
the menus? At that point you have no prompt ... remember, this is a CLEAN
system, there is no fdisk (or anything else) on it.
On Mon, 12 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote:
> On Mon, 12 May 1997, George Bonser wrote:
>
> > I a
On Mon, 12 May 1997, George Bonser wrote:
>
> Uhm, how do you tell the doggone boot disk that you want to run fdisk from
> the menus? At that point you have no prompt ... remember, this is a CLEAN
> system, there is no fdisk (or anything else) on it.
In your explaination you explain that you ar
On Mon, 12 May 1997, George Bonser wrote:
> I am attempting to install frozen on a spanking clean system, it has
> no DOS, no nothing. It has a single IDE disk drive (/dev/hda).
>
> It appears that the only rescue disk in .../frozen/disks-i386/current is
> the low memory disk. This causes me a p
I am attempting to install frozen on a spanking clean system, it has
no DOS, no nothing. It has a single IDE disk drive (/dev/hda).
It appears that the only rescue disk in .../frozen/disks-i386/current is
the low memory disk. This causes me a problem when I try to install, it
asks me if I want t
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