Very Computer

I was trying to install RedHat 2.1.  This is my first redhat install,
although I've installed a couple slackware distributions before.

However, I was unable to boot from their boot/root disk setup.
I made the floppies with boot0015, ramdisk1, and ramdisk2.  I booted
and when request, I put in the ramdisk1 floppy.  It read the floppy
as usual, with the slow progression of ..... across the screen.  When
it asked for the second floppy, it *didn't* read it.  The ..........
appeared all the way across the screen all at once.  Then, very quickly,
I saw something like "/ramdisk/bin/rm: not found" and maybe another
message or two, and then it went into a shutdown.

Anybody seen a problem like this before?  Anyone know what to do to
fix it?

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>I was trying to install RedHat 2.1.  This is my first redhat install,
>although I've installed a couple slackware distributions before.

>However, I was unable to boot from their boot/root disk setup.
>I made the floppies with boot0015, ramdisk1, and ramdisk2.  I booted
>and when request, I put in the ramdisk1 floppy.  It read the floppy
>as usual, with the slow progression of ..... across the screen.  When
>it asked for the second floppy, it *didn't* read it.  The ..........
>appeared all the way across the screen all at once.  Then, very quickly,
>I saw something like "/ramdisk/bin/rm: not found" and maybe another
>message or two, and then it went into a shutdown.

>Anybody seen a problem like this before?  Anyone know what to do to
>fix it?

The second is *very* possible.  If linux doesn't detect the disk change
it will NOT try and read the "same" info again (it's not the same, but since
linux thinks the disk is the same and it hasn't been written to, it thinks
it is safe to fake it)..  I HAVE seen this on bad floppy drives (they work
but they don't report the disk change AT ALL).

--Donnie