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Old 10-15-2002, 05:18 PM   #16
Hans Zarkoff
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Yes, upgrading is a good idea, but I'm not sure it will fix this problem...

I doubt strange hardware would do this. You might get a panic halfway through the boot, but not at LI.

I've had that 'LI' problem before, and my solution is somewhat brutal: Throw the floppy at the wall hard enough to smash it into no less than ten pieces. Not only does this relieve stress, it also scares the other floppy disks into working. This works for keyboards as well.

It may also be a flaky floppy drive. If the BIOS is a few years old, is the floopy (er, floppy) drive also that old? Also check that your cabling between your I/O controller and floppy drive are secure.

*Do not* use the floppy disk solution for your floppy drive--you may damage your wall.
 
Old 10-16-2002, 11:34 AM   #17
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with slackware, i use two boot disks to do the work (for an NFS install of 8.0, at least). i put both files up on my webserver, so you can DL ones that work. :-)

http://www.endrium.com/pub/color.gz
http://www.endrium.com/pub/net.i

hope these help.
 
Old 10-17-2002, 08:06 AM   #18
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You might also try a different (read new) floppy. I had this same problem once.
 
  


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