[plug] testing nic

[Ryan Smith]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 04:37:05PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
| Ryan Smith wrote:
| >A hour later Im still waiting.
| >10-15 minutes is a while but this is rediculus.
| >surely there must be another way to do this.
| 
| It should certainly not take an hour. You say the disk activity light is 
| still on? Weird - I can't see how it could be still trying after an hour 
| if it's run into an out-of-memory error or bad sector.
| 
| It's entierly possible that the Debian boot-floppies just can't be 
| loaded without more than 8mb of memory, but I'd expect to see some form 
| of error if the system had run out of memory.
| 

after a couple of minutes the floppy light goes out. then it just sits
there. No errors, signs of life.Nothing.

I just gave up after an hour of waiting.

Ryan