Adam Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've not tried NFS, but i've had equally big problems with an FTP > install recently, on two different platforms whose only common feature > is the floppy drive (Sony USB floppy.) It just crashes out immediately > after setting the network parameters citing 'fatal error' on the main > console but with nothing obvious having gone wrong on the others. People > familiar with the install process, would it be trying to access the > floppy at this point? If so, would it be confused by the floppy not
Normally not but there are a few things being done at that time behind your back. First, it would help if you could see on terminal #3 the last messages before crash and tell me? > appearing at /dev/fd0? i've had consistent problems with USB floppies Normally not confused up to crash, man :-). Except if the kernel crashes before of usb floppy access. > and Linux installations, all of which could be solved simply by making > the install process look for the floppy drive at /dev/sda as well as at > /dev/fd0...but it seems a trifle early in the process for this to raise > its head, at the equivalent point in the other installs that failed they > were still working and still reading the drive... -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
