I've heard of others having problems with getting a working version of the installation disks and I've tried doing what was suggested in each case - "download the image and write to a fresh floppy and try again" - however, that hasn't been helping in my case.
The boot/rescue disk works perfectly for me. No problems there. I can go through the boot routine, initialize the hard disk, etc, but when I try to read in the base floppies, I get errors every time. In re-creating the disks, I've experienced minor variations on when the errors occur. Sometimes, it won't even begin to read the first disk while other times, I might get error messages, but it'll continue to read the disk almost all the way through. But, no matter how far it gets on this first disk, it doesn't complete it. I should mention that I'm writing this message at work and I've been experiencing the problems at home - which is where I have the exact error message written down... <grin>... so I can't quote it here, but it's pretty cryptic - not much english in the messages. Nothing obvious like "Data error reading, writing....", "Media error", etc... The installation always ends in a kernel panic and I have to reboot. The particular system I'm currently working on is a 386SX/25, 8MB, 210MB IDE, 1.44MB FD. I've been able to get around this by installing 1.1 (no complaints there) and then upgrading via FTP to 1.2, but that's a little painful (and slow) on 386-based systems.... I'd like to have a working set of 1.2 install diskettes, but no luck so far. BTW, I've tried both the December and January versions of the install disk images. Same thing with either version. Any suggestions? Kevin Traas Systems Analyst Edmondson Roper Chartered Accountants http://users.uniserve.com/~erca Chilliwack, B.C. Pager: (604) 918-2054 Office: (604) 792-1915 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
