Odd install from floppy problem

2005-09-25 Thread Carlos Correia
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm trying to install Sarge in a Uniwill laptop (chipset SiS 630) which has no CD-ROM, so I burn the install floppies to try to install from the network. Everything goes fine during the loadins of the boot.img floppy but, after inserting the

Re: Odd install from floppy problem

2005-09-25 Thread debian
Rewrite the root.img disk and be sure to format the disk properly before writing it. On 9/25/2005, Carlos Correia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm trying to install Sarge in a Uniwill laptop (chipset SiS 630) which has no CD-ROM, so I burn the

Re: Odd install from floppy problem

2005-09-25 Thread Carlos Correia
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Rewrite the root.img disk and be sure to format the disk properly before | writing it. | I've done that several times before I wrote the previous e-mail and didn't help... Thanks anyway, Carlos - -- MEMÓRIA PERSISTENTE,

Re: Odd install from floppy problem

2005-09-25 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Carlos Correia wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Rewrite the root.img disk and be sure to format the disk properly before | writing it. | I've done that several times before I wrote the previous e-mail and didn't

Re: Odd install from floppy problem

2005-09-25 Thread Joey Hess
Carlos Correia wrote: Everything goes fine during the loadins of the boot.img floppy but, after inserting the root.img disk, the screen slowly begins to turn white... and nothing more happens :-( I assume this is after it's read data from the floppy or something. Your description of the

Re: Odd install from floppy problem

2005-09-25 Thread Carlos Correia
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alvin Oga wrote: | | On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Carlos Correia wrote: | | |-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- |Hash: SHA1 | |[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: || Rewrite the root.img disk and be sure to format the disk properly before || writing it. || | |I've done