Re: Installation problems
Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 02:15:34PM +0100 wrote:
> Dear Debian Team,
>
> my name's Gabriele and I'm a beginner user of your Gnu/Linux.
> I bought the CD's of Debian's 2.2r2 (Potato) but during the installation of kernel I met a problem and my computer showed this message:
> The attempt to extract the Rescue Floppy from disk failed.
> ioctl: LOOP_CLR_FD:Device not configured
hmm, one guess is maybe a bad floppy, try a different floppy.
> What can I do to solve this problem?
>
> I've got another trouble because a copy of WIN 2000 is already installed on my computer and I don't know if the contemporary presence of LINUX and WIN can create possible conflicts.
Just don't install Debian on top of the windows partition and you should be
fine. For more info see:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-post-install.en.html#s-reactivating-win
David
>
> Thank you very much for your helpfulness.
>
> Gabriele Capelletti.
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