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? Keep happy, all! -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
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?
Keep happy, all!
Are you sure these bootdisks are 486 optimised? I think all the 6.4 bootdisks were Pentium optimised. Can you boot a DOS disk?? Juergen -- =========================================== __ _ Juergen Braukmann juergen.braukmann@gmx.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu | /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ===========================================_\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- S.C. Pol T: +31 20 3116122 Systems Administrator F: +31 20 3116200 Compuware Europe B.V. E: koos_pol@nl.compuware.com Amsterdam PGP public key available -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
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