On Sunday 19 September 2004 06:27 pm, JoeHill wrote: > On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 19:55:08 -0500 > > Hoyt Bailey disseminated the following: > > > Any idea what this 'Additional Drivers floppy' is, and/or where I can > > > get it? > > > > The additional drivers floppy is a FD that contains drivers for hardware > > that is not on the dist it was pretty common in RH-7 days likely you > > shouldn't need it. But you do need a CD-ROM driver that will wake up > > your CD. If you have an old copy of RH or Caldera(from the same era) > > around there should be a driver on that dist that will build a FD that > > may install your MDK dist. No guarantees. > > Thanks Hoyt, but already resolved...sort of :-\ Ended up (see below) that I > needed to use a different floppy image from the default. > > Turns out, the install froze at the very end, didn't reboot, and now the > CDROM won't stay closed and the system won't boot. I'm thinkin' the CDROM > got fried by some 'eject' command at the end of the install, but I'm just > guessing on that one. > > I'm taking this as a hint that MDK 10 is probably not good to load on this > old-timer. I've wanted to do some experimenting, and I'm thinkin' a more > 'stock' kernel is better for an old cranky machine like this, so I'm gonna > try a Debian network install from floppies, just for fun. > > Wish me luck :-) that's not a LG R/W drive is it ..thee was a problem a while back
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