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From: Eric Lemings elemings@unix1.utm.edu
Subject: What would cause...
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1995 22:49:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19951112034945.0chfjKgfJ7KQ80pyl6RqljJaNH7DJd_d1aUvMsnnK0s@z> (raw)

John D. Pritchard (jdp@cs.columbia.EDU) wrote:

: i *doubt* that the floppy is trying to write to itself -- it reads alot
: during boot, it's all reading, though.

The reason that I figure it is trying to install to itself is when I
write-protected the disk, I got I/O errors during install.  When I made the
disk writable, everything seemed to work fine but nothing was on the hard
drive.

Eric Lemings







             reply	other threads:[~1995-11-12  3:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1995-11-12  3:49 Eric [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1995-11-14  8:46 J.Hierro-Grosse
1995-11-09 17:56 John
1995-11-09 16:56 forsyth
1995-11-08  2:08 Eric

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