just not quoting myself, but forwarding. I am sure sendmail chewed up a bunch of mails while I was experementing. here's my repost: juergen.braukmann@ruhr-west.de wrote:

François Pinard wrote:

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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

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