Re: Help with floppy-less laptop

To: Paul Thurrott <paul@thurrott.com>
Cc: debian-boot@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Help with floppy-less laptop
From: Marcin Owsiany <porridge@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 00:55:20 +0200
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> Mount Failed.
> Unable to mount the Rescue Floppy. You may have inserted the wrong
> floppy. Please try again. <Continue>

I think that the message is wrong in this case and that dbootstrap
actually means 'cdrom' in this case.

I don't know why it won't mount your CD, maybe you need a boot argument,
like 'hdb=cdrom'? That depends on your hardware, in fact. Please read the
install manual.

Marcin
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