From: Shannon Mecklenburg (shannon@mecklenburg.cc)
Date: Tue Dec 04 2001 - 05:41:48 CET
A
>I am using method B (boot from dos) to get a install going,
>and select option 1 (boot/usr/root). at this point it runs out of swap space
>:-(, and the rest of the process although it looks like it complete's okay,
>I reboot with resulting disk, and get lots of file ext2 filesystem error's
>when it tries to mount the USR part of the floppy :-( :-(.
>I presume that's because I'm running out of swap space on my dos partition
Is it possible that the image on the disk is corrupted? Or maybe the drive
in your computer can't read the format? I think this might be formatted
out as a 1.77MB disk, but I don't remember.
Heck being that your computer is so old I wouldn't be surprised that if it
only read the Double Density Format (720KB). I don't know what happens if
you put a high density disk in a double density drive. What does your BIOS
show the drive as? And can you use High Density floppies and are able to
read and write out the whole disk?
>:-(.
>
>I have tried using method a, but it's seem the bios on the machine refuses
>to boot the resulting disk, I get a rather unhelpful 'boot failed' message!.
>
>Please feel free to flame me if you think trying to install linux on to this
>throw away system is silly!
Thanks for the offer! :)
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