[WBEL-users] drvnet.img

Johnny Hughes mailing-lists@hughesjr.com
Sun, 11 Jul 2004 05:47:30 -0500 

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On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 23:55, Keith Morse wrote:

> Hopefully someone has seen this issue before.  I need to use boot floppies 
> to install whitebox on a pc that has no cd drive.  It's a funky dell 
> desktop that requires a specific drive.  I'm using winimage to write the 
> image to a floppy.  The bootdisk.img works without problem.  With 
> drvnet.img winimage fails to read the image.  I've tried three of the 
> mirrors so far, all with the same behaviour "error reading image".
> 
> 
> Ideas?

There seems to be something wrong with the dosutils directory on the
mirrors .... it doesn't have all the tools in it.

All the tools are on the Respin1 CD-1.

I used dosutils/rawritewin/rawritewin.exe to write the Respin1 CD-1 to
write images/drvnet.img to drive a with no problems.


Johnny Hughes
HughesJR.com

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On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 23:55, Keith Morse wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><I>Hopefully someone has seen this issue before.  I need to use boot floppies 
to install whitebox on a pc that has no cd drive.  It's a funky dell 
desktop that requires a specific drive.  I'm using winimage to write the 
image to a floppy.  The bootdisk.img works without problem.  With 
drvnet.img winimage fails to read the image.  I've tried three of the 
mirrors so far, all with the same behaviour &quot;error reading image&quot;.


Ideas?</I></FONT></PRE>
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There seems to be something wrong with the dosutils directory on the mirrors .... it doesn't have all the tools in it.<BR>
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All the tools are on the Respin1 CD-1.<BR>
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I used dosutils/rawritewin/rawritewin.exe to write the Respin1 CD-1 to write images/drvnet.img to drive a with no problems.<BR>
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