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Title: Installation fails
Post by: Arend on August 29, 2001, 06:44:49 PM
Hi, I am attempting to install E-smith 4.1.2 but the installation keeps failing.  I am booting from a boot floppy as the machine will not boot from the CD - I have tried recreating the floppy several times but it always fails at the same point.  I type "accept", it loads initrd, loads vmlinuz, displays the messages about probing PCI and detects the HDD etc.  I then see a blue screen for about 5 seconds and then I get the message "EXEC: Exec Format Error" then "Install exited abnormally".  The system then shuts down.  Does anyone know what this means?
thanks
Arend