Jim Tittsler wrote:

>On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 03:08:54PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
>
>>	Can you run a 'tar tvzf /dev/fd0a' on the second floppy
>>	to verify it?
>>
>
>I tried interrupting the install script at the point where it
>asks for the second floppy, but 'eject' failed with:
># eject /dev/fd0a
>fd0: timeout: state 10
>fd0: timeout: state 13
>fd0: timeout: state 13
>fd0: timeout: state 13
>fd0: timeout: state 13
>fd0a: hard error reading fsbn 0
>fd0: controller status: state 13
>
>FWIW I did a 'tar tvzf /dev/fd0' on a Linux machine and was able to
>see all of the files I found in the disk2 image.
>
Sounds to me like a bad floppy drive. I ran into similar problems on my 
IPC. I ended up
borrowing a floppy drive out of a friends SS2 and using it to boot the 
install image. Once
it was booted and had a working install I put both machines back 
together and returned
his. Your milage may vary, of course. :)

-Gerald