I did try with 3 different floppies (2 brand new) ... same problem. I
previously had RH Linux on this machine, so I know that the floppy drive
is fine.


On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> 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
>

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