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Dan Stephen wrote:
>
> I am using a Compaq 1750 with 192 Mb of RAM and 
> I am using the floppies. 

Do the floppies boot on a different computer?
It is quite possible the first floppy is faulty.
As it says in the instructions, rawriting image 
files requires a perfect floppy.  The last name-
brand floppies I bought had two bad floppies in 
the box of ten.

The first floppy is the issue.  Am I right in 
assuming that you never get a chance to insert 
the second floppy?

> I'm sure I've seen this problem before but I can't 
> quite pin it down.

If the floppies are OK and the floppy drive is OK, 
my next guess is (everybody's favorite):  faulty 
or mismatched RAM modules.  Linux is very sensitive
to RAM inconsistencies.

Cheers,
Steven

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