Slackware 8.0 install error

[Rodney]

Adam,
Thanks.  I'll try creating new copies of both the boot and root disks
with different floppies.  I create the disks on a different computer and
the floppy on that computer is not bad at all.  But I have no idea about
the destination (future Linux) box.
Thanks.
Rodney

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Adam Myrow
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 7:18 AM
To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: Slackware 8.0 install error


Reading that error message suggests to me that either you have a failing
floppy drive or that you have a corrupt copy of the root disk.  The
first
thing I'd try is rewriting the root disk on a different floppy.   The
fact
that it took a long time to come up talking also makes me wonder about
that floppy drive.  I know I recently had to replace a floppy drive
because it absolutely refused to format floppies and attempts to create
disks with Rawrite always resulted in corrupt disks.  After replacing
the drive, the problems went away.  Good luck.



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