Re: floppy install problems

2000-04-20 Thread Tom Anzalone
Kenneth, Unfortunately I am unable to transfer drives due to the nature of the the hardware. I may try to transfer the disks to the partitioned drive though like you mentioned. I think I can get to the command line by hitting Alt+F4. Thanks for your help. Tom Date sent: Wed,

Re: floppy install problems

2000-04-20 Thread russell simmons
I installed slink on my 486. 210mb hd and 12 mgs ram, from floppy. I was trying to install slack, but just couldn't get it to work, so I tried debian and all went fine. If you are making the floppies from windoz, as I did, it is important to do so from dos, and not a dos window, and I would re

Re: floppy install problems

2000-04-20 Thread kmself
Alternatively, a PLIP (parallel port IP) link to another sytem might also work. I'd probably vote for an HD swap myself. On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 05:14:53PM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > You might try coping the files to floppies that have > been formated on the target machine's drive. Or > t