Have tried numerous disks, with no luck, thanks for the tip tho, It
irritates me that the comp wouldn't recognize a backpack cd player
either, perchance i have a machine that's fouled?
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> *- On 22 Mar, Go go Gadget email! wrote about "Floppy install"
> > Greetings,
> > I've been attempting to install linux onto an IBM Thinkpad 755CE with you
> > floppy install instructions/software, and everything has been running
> > smoothly, until i attempt to install the kernel. It asks for the rescue
> > disk, and once inserted and ok is hit, it refuses to mount the rescue
> > disk. I'm hoping you can clue me into what i might be able to do to get
> > this guy operating.
> > Thanks!
> >
>
> Have you tried more than one disk? The number one problem with disk
> installs is bad disks. Even if it is a brand new disk, try a different
> disk. Because you are writing raw data to a disk which includes the
> formating and filesystem the disk has to be perfect. Unlike using a
> format command which will find bad sectors and mark them as such.
>
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