Re: Problem with installation for original release of Potato.
Jim Skea <jimsk@dft.if.uerj.br> writes:
> I've a problem with the base system install of potato (original)
>
> The computer is an AMD K6-2-350 on an ASUS P5A-B with a WD 10Gb IDE,
> S3 Trio 3D/SX video and a 3Com 905B network card. The HD already has
> potato installed, but the enduser wants a second operating system :-(
> so I want to reinstall potato.
>
> I'm using the idepci rescue & root floppies from
> kernel-image-2.2.17-idepci_2.2.17pre6-1
>
> The rescue floppy reads fine, and the root disk seems to load OK too.
>
> Up come the Release Notes beginning
>
> This is the Debian Rescue floppy, version 2.2.16
That's a pretty old version.
> I hit Enter to continue, the screen blinks a few times and returns to
> the Release Notes page. If I try hitting Return a few times, *occasionally*
> the message
>
> trying to determine the state of my system
>
> appears very briefly on the screen, before inevitably returning to the
> Release Notes.
>
> Has anyone else reported this behaviour? Do I have to pass any special
> arguments to the boot procedure for a reinstall?
Hmm.
The only thing I can think is that dbootstrap was segfaulting,
probably on entry to main_menu() or somewhere in there.
Is there any system logs?
Is the RAM on that box ok?
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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