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- From: crhoffma@iastate.edu (Chad Hoffman)
- Subject: Attempting to install Linux. Help!
- Message-ID: <crhoffma.722330351@vincent2.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 07:19:11 GMT
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- Please help!
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- I've ftp'd everything from the SLS directory at wuarchive.wustl.edu,
- put all files on their respective floppies, and booted with a1. After
- using fdisk (I deleted my DOS partition, as I was having probs), rebooting,
- using mkfs, I proceded to install a, c, and x disks. a2, and a3 went fine,
- but when I got to a4, I got the following error message:
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- [MS-DOS FS Rev. alpha.8, FAT 12, check=n, conv=b, uid=0, gid=0, umask=000]
- [me=0xc0, cs=240, #f=10, fs=20510, fl=55438, se=13083, de=30162, data=52487,
- se=13083, ts=-13722593]
- Unsupported FS Parameters
- MINIX-FS magic match failed
- EXT-FS magic match failed
- Insert disk a4.......
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- Now, the file 'diska4' is present on the disk. What's up? All help is
- appreciated! DOWN WITH DOS!!!
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- Chad Hoffman crhoffma@iastate.edu
- Biochemistry/Biophysics Iowa State University
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