On Tuesday 04 June 2002 05:28 am, Scott Wagner wrote: > Hi > I've copied the patch numerous times and each time I try the install when > it comes to the part where you partition the hard drive the floppy drive > starts to work and it just works and works and nothing happens until I > finally exit the install. > What should the file type of the copied patch be? Windows saves it as a > text file and I wonder if this is a problem. > > Thanks, > SW > Scott, what do you mean by "windows saves it as a text file"?
Do you mean, that windows saves "patch.pl" as "patch.txt" ? - In that case it's no wonder everything goes awry. I can only think of one way that could happen : if you use M$-file-explorer (I'm not sure of the name) to drag'n drop the file from the harddisk to the floppy. As far as I remember, this explorer-thingy doesn't show file-extensions, but nevertheless I doubt that even a M$-app could behave that stupid. No, I think the problem is that the first time you tried to install 8.2 you created a file-system on your HD. Then you reached the "select-packages" part and everything stopped. Now, when you try another install, this time with the patch in place, the installer finds an "alien" partition-table and panics. May I recommend : Do an "expert" install, and choose to delete all partitions except the windows-ones. Then, create linux-partitions once again to your liking. Remember to have the floppy in place. If still in trouble, repost to this list, I'm sure there are people here to help you through this. I'm sure it's only some minor issue. HTH Kaj Haulrich Denmark
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