A180C Freeze at Rescue Floppy
I'm attempting to install Debian Woody on a A180C with an external hard
disk, DVD-ROM/CDROM, and DAT tape. I've worked with HP-UX for 4-5
years, and these A boxes for several years (2?).
Everything seems to go fine, but it freezes on a screen saying it is
loading a Rescue Floppy Image from the CD-ROM. I went looking for a
shell using Alt-F2, but that's probably just my ignorance showing.
I've worked with Linux a lot, but not Debian: mostly Red Hat and SuSE
and Yellow Dog to date. I did install Debian/i386 once :-)
I'm guessing that the system is looking for a floppy drive, of which
the A180C has none.
I don't relish the idea of using the network, but that's probably what
I'll do. What's the deal with the Rescue Floppy?
As I say, I've been using Linux / Red Hat / HP-UX / UNIX for a long
time, but I'm new to Debian and PA-RISC Linux....
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