Have you tried a different floppy drive. I know that I have had a floppy die on me before. It might not be able to read the disk properly. Is your boot disk corrupted? Try making a new one. Also, might I suggest you use a bootable CD? I hope that this helps, Josh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Lambert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 10:45 PM Subject: [vox-tech] Weird linux installation problem > I've been strugling with this problem for a few weeks now. What I'm trying to > do is get linux on an old Acer Pentium 100. It has 43megs of ram and an 8gig > hd. Here is where the problem comes in... No matter what distribtuion I try > to install when I put the boot disk in and it starts to load the install program > it gets up to the point where it says "Uncompressing Linux..." and then stops. > I've left it over night to see if it is just slow but thats not the case. > > Any ideas? >
