Re: Floppy won't boot with internal cache enabled

1996-08-09 Thread Guy Maor
On Thu, 8 Aug 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Don't forget to pop out and replace the floppy - the data could be read from a disk block cache rather than the floppy if you don't do that. ... Does this note mean that one can replace floppy disks without unmounting and mounting in

Re: Floppy won't boot with internal cache enabled

1996-08-09 Thread salwen
... Don't forget to pop out and replace the floppy - the data could be read from a disk block cache rather than the floppy if you don't do that. ... Does this note mean that one can replace floppy disks without unmounting and mounting in between? Or were the 'umount' and 'mount' implied by pop

Re: Floppy won't boot with internal cache enabled

1996-08-08 Thread Dan Bergman
Guy Maor wrote: On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Steve Gaarder wrote: I am installing Debian 1.1.1 on a generic clone with an AMD 486 on an Opti-based motherboard. If I have the internal cache enabled in setup, I get the error invalid compressed format after the uncompressing Linux message. If I

Re: Floppy won't boot with internal cache enabled

1996-08-08 Thread Guy Maor
On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Steve Gaarder wrote: I am installing Debian 1.1.1 on a generic clone with an AMD 486 on an Opti-based motherboard. If I have the internal cache enabled in setup, I get the error invalid compressed format after the uncompressing Linux message. If I disable the cache, it

Re: Floppy won't boot with internal cache enabled

1996-08-08 Thread Michael J. Cotherman
Steve Gaarder wrote: I am installing Debian 1.1.1 on a generic clone with an AMD 486 on an Opti-based motherboard. If I have the internal cache enabled in setup, I get the error invalid compressed format after the uncompressing Linux message. If I disable the cache, it boots fine. It

Re: Floppy won't boot with internal cache enabled

1996-08-08 Thread Bruce Perens
On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Steve Gaarder wrote: I am installing Debian 1.1.1 on a generic clone with an AMD 486 on an Opti-based motherboard. If I have the internal cache enabled in setup, I get the error invalid compressed format after the uncompressing Linux message. If I disable the cache, it

Floppy won't boot with internal cache enabled

1996-08-07 Thread Steve Gaarder
I am installing Debian 1.1.1 on a generic clone with an AMD 486 on an Opti-based motherboard. If I have the internal cache enabled in setup, I get the error invalid compressed format after the uncompressing Linux message. If I disable the cache, it boots fine. It boots ok from the hard drive