i am getting errors when trying to reinstall on my old 486, after copying about half of the packages i get an 'abnormal exit' error and when i look at alt-4 (or maybe 3, i can't remember) i see a reference to 'hdd tray open' now my cdrom is on the second ide channel as a slave so guess that it is hdd but the tray is definitely not open. on the basis that my cdrom may be faulty, is it possible to install from my other box in the same way as installing over the net if i create an appropriate directory on my main machine with the contents of the cd in? each machine has a nic installed connected via a hub. bascule
