paolo massei wrote:
<snip> Hmm, problem solved thanks.I finally found some decent floppies (I must have tried about two sets before), and made images of root.bin and rescue.bin. I then booted, and waited past the messages "VM: do_try_to_free_ages failed for modprobe... (and kswapd), and eventually the intaller came into life.
Perfect (I hope)! :) Many thanks all, -- Chris Howells E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 93699029 Web: http://www.linuxfan.com/~chowells