On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 05:15:20PM +0100, David Murphy wrote: > I have managed to successfully dd the bf2.4 rescue.bin to a floppy and I've > replaced linux.bin with my own compiled kernel (having run rdev.sh). > > This rescue floppy successfully boots and allows me to format and partition > my hard drive. I've also been able to setup networking. > > But, as soon as I try to "Install the Kernel & Driver Modules", the > installer is unable to mount the floppy. This happens when I try to mount > the rescue.bin from floppy, cdrom and even via http (it manages to download > rescue.bin and drivers.tgz, but then states that it cannot mount the file). > > Even going to command line and trying to mount a floppy fails. > > The error I get is " Mounting /dev/fd0 on /floppy failed: Invalid Argument " > > I suspect I'm missing something very obvious but I've tried a number of > different approaches and nothing seems to work. > > Really appreciate any guidance, as I've been hitting my head against this > for a couple of days now. >
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