Re: Toshiba installation failure

1998-09-11 Thread Chris Mc.
I'm even more confused now :-) For some reason, I couldn't get rawrite to write the 1.44 files to my last box of KAO disks. I tried the 1.2, and it worked fine. I booted off the LOWMEM.BIN floppy and was able to set up the three partitions and initialize the swap. The second step was to initializ

Re: Toshiba installation failure

1998-09-11 Thread Simon Holgate
Quick qustion. What is the size of your floppy drive? If you have a 1.44MB drive then use the lowmem.bin floppy image. There are problems with this (as you may have seen from the many recent postings re: the lowmem installation problems - check the archive.) If you are using the 1.2MB install do y

Re: Toshiba installation failure

1998-09-11 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> > Configuring root file ... > MINIX-fs: bad root directory '.' entry > Unable to mount the temporary root partition! I"ve never used a lowmem setup, but as a wild guess, does it need a mkfs.minix run on it first? --