Re: problems with superformatted floppies

From: Joshua Hudson (joshudson@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Aug 29 2001 - 21:40:44 CEST


>From: Adam Nash <adam@comit.recruitnet.com.au>
>
>Hi All,
>I'm trying to install mulinux on an old 486dx33 with 8Mb ram. The
>boot+root disk and the usr disk go on fine, but when I try to install
>the wks or X11 floppies, they get part way through then the floppy
>drive's light goes off and the system just stops.
>For example, the WKS disk goes like this:
>
>Loading WKS from /dev/fd0H1722 (offset 0k). Please, wait...
>
>Creating /dev/ram3 ramdisk ...
>mke2fs 1.10, 24-Apr-97 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
>Completed 22%
>
>...it clicks through "Completed 1%" up until 22% then just stops.
>Same thing happens with the X11 disk, but it gets to 47% before
>stopping
>
>Assumedly this is because of the overformatting (or whtevr its called)
>of the floppy? Is there a way of getting the modules onto two
>ordinarily formatted floppies, or is it something I am doing wrong?
>Would very much like to work this out, so would appreciate any help
>anyone can give me.
>Cheers,
>Adam
>adam@comit.recruitnet.com.au
>

Clone to hd before loading addons. You ran out of memory.

_________________________________________________________________
Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: mulinux-unsubscribe@sunsite.dk
For additional commands, e-mail: mulinux-help@sunsite.dk



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.6 : Sat Feb 08 2003 - 15:27:19 CET