Re: Booting From Rescue Disk To Begin Clean Install
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 02:00:23PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is the right list, but I'm gonna try here (I'm also
> subscribed to several other of the Debian lists, including debian-user,
> so if this question belongs there, please excuse my faux pas).
>
> Currently I'm running RedHat 7.2 on my main machine. I want to install
> Debian on a secondary machine (to possibly become a fulltime webserver).
> Using the commdand:
>
> dd if=rescue.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 conv=sync ; sync
>
> Gives me a disk that I can boot the other machine with. At the boot
> prompt, I hit enter and the boot sequence fails (I'm going to have to do
> a network install as I don't have a CD-ROM for either machine). I retry,
> using the same disk, and it prints "Loading....." at the top of the
> screen, then it just starts pringtin a letter and some numbers (e.g. A
> 3498), it does so with one combination per line for about 30 lines, then
> restarts the machine. I have tried Debian before (on this machine, but
> had problems with getting the Xwindows server up and running) and had no
> problems with doing the install as I was able to make everything from
> the ISO images to the install floppy here, but the other machine doesn't
> even have a working OS on it atm (if any param's such as cpu, RAM, and
> what not are needed, I'll gladly provide).
I think you need a different flavor. Did you try idepci?
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