Re: rescue disk install
Hi,
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 09:17:40PM -0600, Jeff Conder wrote:
> Hi - I have not been able to get past the rescue disk install.
Which version potato/woody stable/testing? I assume potato ;-)
> I've read and searched through the documents and haven't
> found anything that relates to what I perceive is the problem.
>
> Any help on this would be appreciated:
>
> My system is - 900MHz Athelon, 128M RAM, 60G IDE Hard
> drive, Adaptec SCSI PCI adapter, HP 10/100 Fast Ethernet
> PCI card, USB keyboard & mouse.
Nice. I just installed potato to 486DX4 50MHz. (Here)
> I downloaded the i386 rescue binary for compact install
> and for basic install, same problems. Used rawrite2 to
> make a floppy. The floppy works fine, get the boot: prompt.
How about root and driver-? disks?
> I have tried normal boot (return), linux mem=128m, and
> linux mem=128m kbd-reset
That"s good but ... (W/o them can still boot with 64MB)
> My symptoms are - No major error messages, but can't
> stop the scroll. ATA keboard is not found during the
> process. I get to a prompt asking for the root disk
> to be inserted, then I'm suppose to press the ENTER
> key.
Only after you enter root disk into /dev/fd0
> But, my keyboard does not seem to work. I can't
> get past this point.
>
See official install guide:
http://www.debian.org/doc/admin-manuals
Also this is helpful.
http://www.debian.org/doc/ddp
Also peek-into my experiences in my web page... Good luck ;-)
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