Re: Problems with 1.2 Install Disks

1997-01-18 Thread Kevin Traas
> > I've heard of others having problems with getting a working version of the > > installation disks and I've tried doing what was suggested in each case - > > "download the image and write to a fresh floppy and try again" - however, > > that hasn't been helping in my case. > > > > The boot/rescu

Re: Problems with 1.2 Install Disks

1997-01-17 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: > > I've heard of others having problems with getting a working version of the > installation disks and I've tried doing what was suggested in each case - > "download the image and write to a fresh floppy and try again" - however, > that hasn't been helping

Re: Problems with 1.2 Install Disks

1997-01-16 Thread Bruce Perens
I suspect these problems have something to do with the Linux floppy driver. I have experienced problems reading the base floppies on one Pentium laptop here at Pixar. I think it was _temperature_sensitive_ (it worked best when just turned on) but the BIOS and DOS/Windows95 floppy drivers had no pr