Robert Lemmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i just installed woody on an alpha system and i encountered a couple > of potential issues/problems that you might want to hear about: > > my system is 164ux based and uses arcbios. i downloaded the floppy > images and milo from "3.0.17-2001-11-2". > > - the ruffian milo doesn't seem to be able to read from fat > filesystems, and therefore can't boot the rescue floppy. i > replaced it with a version i ripped of a suse cd that can read > fat. this one says "v1.1 Jay's hacked version" on startup.
Are you sure you're talking about the MILO and not ldmilo.exe? What is the error message you get? > - the driver-1.bin and driver-2.bin seem to be corrupt, since they > cannot be read by dbootstrap. the md5sums are ok, and the rescue > floppy can be read too. Hm, weird. What exactly does dbootstrap say? Perhaps you could try using the report option, which will write a log to a floppy. > if i dd these files to floppies, these floppies don't seem to have > a filesystem known to me/my kernel any more. i did the > installation from net and didn't need the floppies any more. That's normal, they just contain a splitted tar with a few bytes header on each disk. Falk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]