> When I install V 1.7.140 of your Linux from DOS everything goes fine
> untill the end of the install when it asks if I want to `format` another
> floppy disk. after I type in Y or N my machine locks up. The only way I
> can find to reveve it is a hard reset. After reseting the Linux floppy
> seems to work fine. My motherboard is a Matsonic 6380 with integrated
> SIS 530 graphics. I have an AMD K6-2 400 MHz CPU and 64M of 100MHz RAM.
> I am running Win98 SE, and I restart to dos before running install.
If you say "N", it is just supposed to reboot at that point, anyway. So,
I think you are fine. If you say "Y".. for that not to ask you to insert
another floppy, that is _very_ _strange_, since it is looping back to the
start of a shell script that already worked once for you. This has never
been reported before. Any ideas are welcome on what could cause this but
I think unless something occurs to someone I'll just drop it since it did
do what it was supposed to, after all...
Here is the linuxrc that it is running at that point:
#!/bin/ash
FAIL () {
echo [5m FAILED $@ Enter to continue...[0\;10m
read J
break
}
trap "" 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15
while [ true ]; do
while [ true ]; do
clear
echo "Insert a blank writable 3.5\" floppy diskette then strike ENTER."
echo
read J
echo "About to fdformat /dev/fd0u1722"
fdformat /dev/fd0u1722||FAIL error during fdformat
echo "About to dd floppy image"
dd if=tomsrtbt.raw of=/dev/fd0u1722 count=3444||FAIL error during dd
fdflush /dev/fd0u1722||FAIL error during fdflush
echo "About to verify floppy image"
cmp tomsrtbt.raw /dev/fd0u1722||FAIL error during compare
echo "Succeeded!"
break
done
echo "Try again / do another? y/n?"
read J
[ "$J" = "n" -o "$J" = "N" ]&&reboot -f
done
Maybe I'll add something else for the trap so it gives better diagnostics?
-Tom
