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From: Eric Lemings elemings@uni...
Subject: What would cause...
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1995 22:49:45 -0500

John D. Pritchard (jdp@cs....) wrote:

: i *doubt* that the floppy is trying to write to itself -- it reads alot
: during boot, it's all reading, though.

The reason that I figure it is trying to install to itself is when I
write-protected the disk, I got I/O errors during install.  When I made the
disk writable, everything seemed to work fine but nothing was on the hard
drive.

Eric Lemings