Re: [salimma1@yahoo.co.uk: Re: Request for addition: USB mass storage support]
--- Eric VB <eric@femto.eric.ath.cx> wrote:
>
> That's how I install Debian on my laptop, which has
> no floppies and, for some
> misterious, refuse to boot from Debian CD's. I was
> thus in the same situation
> as Michel.
No you're not :) see below
> > LILO doesn't load at all - froze after
> 'Uncompressing
> > Linux'.
>
> LILO doesn't play here. It's loadlin.
>
Slip-up :) I meant Loadlin
> IMHO, if the system freezes while uncompressing the
> kernel using loadlin, it
> will also freeze using the boot-floppies, but I may
> be wrong of course.
It works using the boot-floppies... surprise... oh
well, I managed to get Debian on it, with Reiser too.
Thanks anyway, everyone.
Regards,
Michel
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