Re: Potato install fails to load ROOT image

2000-09-14 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Stuart Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry to reply to myself, but I've come to the conclusion after further > testing that my floppy drive is 100% busted and I'm not going to be able > to do anything useful off it. I also can't (practically) replace it. I > do have a fully functioning Re

Re: Potato install fails to load ROOT image

2000-09-13 Thread Stuart Ballard
Stuart Ballard wrote: > > I'm trying to install potato from floppies (onto a laptop that doesn't > have a CD drive). 100% reliably and repeatably, I get the following > messages when I insert the ROOT floppy: [snip] > I've obtained this exact same error across 3 different root floppies > (the thi

Potato install fails to load ROOT image

2000-09-13 Thread Stuart Ballard
I'm trying to install potato from floppies (onto a laptop that doesn't have a CD drive). 100% reliably and repeatably, I get the following messages when I insert the ROOT floppy: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 799 end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 799 invalid