On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 10:57:12AM -0700, GERALD SPENCE wrote: > I have a Zenith 486-66 laptop that I had been running > "potato" on quite well. I wiped the harddrive and > tried to install "woody" 3.0 vanilla (and later > "compact"). The rescue disk behaves fine. The root > disk gives a load error on keyboard load(us-qwerty > "error loading the keymap i386/qwerty/us.keymap from > /etc/keymaps.tgz"). It then gives a warning about me > having 9 meg of ram (which is true and will be made up > for on swap). Then it won't allow the hard drive to > be partitioned do to "cfdisk has failed....." then > suggests to wipe the partition table(which I did). I > have downloaded new images and rewrote the disks (even > used new floppies). Nothing has worked. The hard > drive is ok. I can partition, format, and load DOS on > it. Any help you can give is appreciated. I have > tried everything I can think of.
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