On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Jaiwant Mulik wrote:

> While either of boot1.fs and bootlap1.fs floppies for installation, I get
> the following error:
>
> ...
> 1701933+2171712@@@@@@@@@read text : Input/output error
> ...
>
> and ofcourse nothing works after that.

That indicates bad media. Try it again with a different floppy.

Frederick