Installing Mandrake 7.2

[banksam at swanhill.net.au]

On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 19:47:34 GMT, banksam at swanhill.net.au wrote:

>When installing it crashed at the stage of making a boot floppy.  This
>happened several times so then we tried a text install and skipped the
>floppy.  That worked.  Then we tried making the floppy from within
>Linux.  That crashed.  We tried formatting a floppy.  That worked ok.
>Then we tried making a boot disk again.  The system crashed.  So we
>tried making a boot disk manually with 
>
>dd if=/boot/vmlinuz2.2....  of=dev/fd0 bs=8192 
>
>I know this works.  I've done it before.  But the system I am talking
>about crashed and then wouldn't reboot.
>
>Has anyone else had similar problems?  Has anyone found a solution??
>
>Arthur


Sorry.  Absent mindedness.  Sent to the wrong group.