Jamie Wilkinson dribbled 07/03/2002 23:42 ...Quote> Pfft, installing Debian is child's play. All it requires is a small amount of literacy and some common sense. Or is that too much to ask?
<endquote> I'm too old to be a child, so I hope thats the problem!! I have at least a base kernel loaded, ( I think) , But I was unable to make a boot disk . The install progressively threw out every floppy I tried to write to, new, old, unformatted, formatted with ext2, windows. That doesn't worry me, I'll keep installing till I get it up. Each Disk had a warm-up done on it, and the message came up to add a line to /etc/driveprm drive 0: deviation xxxxxx xxxxxx changed every time, occasionally came up several times, but never in succession. The numbers were positive or negative, and ranged from 113840 to - 4240. Question . Is it telling me there is something wrong with the floppy drive, or just having hysterics cause the driveprm is wrong . Obviously I can't get in during install to modify the file. The box is now obsolete, (six months old) the drive still works ok for other OS's TIA Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
