Re: Potato install fails to load ROOT image

2000-09-14 Thread Adam Di Carlo
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

RE: Potato install fails to load ROOT image

2000-09-14 Thread C. Falconer
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

RE: Potato install fails to load ROOT image

2000-09-14 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
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

RE: Potato install fails to load ROOT image

2000-09-14 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
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?

Re: Potato install fails to load ROOT image

2000-09-14 Thread Julio Merino
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

Re: Potato install fails to load ROOT image

2000-09-13 Thread Stuart Ballard
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

Re: Potato install fails to load ROOT image

2000-09-13 Thread Stuart Ballard
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

Re: Potato install fails to load ROOT image

2000-09-13 Thread Julio Merino
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