Installing 2.2r4 on a Compaq Evo machine
Dear All,
Apologies if this is a trivial question, but I've installed a few Debian systems
and have never come across this one!
I'm trying to install 2.2r4 on a standard corporate Compaq Evo (1.8GHz Pentium)
machine - 20GB hard disk on the primary master (not cable select) and CDROM on
secondary master. At the moment I've not freed any disk space - the hard disk
has one Windoze NT partition.
When I boot from CDROM I get the welcome screen. I press return and the system
is probed for IDE devices (both found) and SCSI devices (none present - none
found). I then get a couple of lines of gibberish numbers enclosed in square
brackets [] which seem to describe details of the existing Windows partition.
Then I get the line:
Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00.
At which point it hangs.
I've tried using the same installation disks on another older Compaq desktop,
and a Dell laptop. In both cases the system got to the blue "choose your
keyboard layout" screen. I'm happy this is not an issue with the lack of a free
disk partition - neither of the machines that worked had one, and I'm way before
the stage where I need to interact with the disk anyway.
Has anyone got any ideas?
Many thanks in advance, and best wishes,
Phill Cook
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