For test purposes, I downloaded the current bf2.4-images and wrote them on floppies. I'm experiencing strange behaviour, and I'm really unsure wether this might be
- an incomatibility with this kernel 2.4 - as suggested in the README.txt - a bug - or just a problem of damaged image files. First of all, are there md5-sums for the boot-floppy images? The problems I have are that the computer totally freezes during installation, at one or the other point. I experienced a freeze at the following stages: - after (or during?) copying the root.bin floppy to RAM: Floppy activity ended, nothing happened (2 times) - at different stages of the dbootstrap install process: A new screen appeared, but I couldn't move the selection nor select the highlighted line with <ENTER> (at least 3 times) - when initiallizing an ext3 partition, after printing" ...system accounting information" (3 or 4 times) - while reading the rescue or driver disks. (2 times, I used ext2 or reiserfs in these 2 cases, but that might be a strange coincidence) Since the error also occured while reading a floppy disk (the progress bar was somewhere in the middle), I believe that it's not just the keyboard that freezes, but the whole thing. Unfortunately I never switched to the third console by chance right before the freeze came, that would have been interesting. I experienced this with a first set of disks, a second one, re-written from the same images, and a third one with freshly downloaded images. The first set was ritten with dd under woody, the others with rawrite2.exe in WinNT (because the old Linux Laptop seems to have a problem with its floppy drive, and I wanted to exclude that). The system is a Dell Inspiron 8100 Laptop with Intel 815E chipset. Any comments? Bye, Frank -- Frank Fürst, physikalische Biochemie, Universität Potsdam, Germany Tel.: +49-331-977-5062 Fax: +49-331-977-5062
