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Re: [SLE] Booting problems on 486s
  • From: koos_pol@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Koos Pol)
  • Date: 05 Sep 2000 17:08:08 CEST
  • Message-id: <20000905150809.D60BF8289@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



On 05 Sep 2000 10:29:41 -0400, François Pinard wrote:

| Hi, people. Long time no talk.
|
| On some 486s we still use, we have problems installing SuSE 6.4, right at
| boot. The CD-ROM is not bootable, so we have to resort to boot disquettes.
| But these cannot be read either. Would it be possible that they use some
| over-density that older disquette drives cannot read?
|
| Besides changing hardware (:-), would someone have an idea about the options
| left to me?

Old Dell's ? We had problems all of the time during installation... Due to
some sort of BIOS problem. Never got to solve it...

Koos Pol
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