Re: A180C Freeze at Rescue Floppy
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 01:06:21PM -0500, David Douthitt wrote:
> Everything seems to go fine, but it freezes on a screen saying it is
> loading a Rescue Floppy Image from the CD-ROM.
...
> I'm guessing that the system is looking for a floppy drive, of which
> the A180C has none.
My guess is it's looking for certain files to install.
And it's not looking for a real floppy.
parisc-linux has never support floppy disk.
Can you cut/paste the serial console output?
> 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?
It's just misnamed.
Best is to use the CD to boot, but then point the install process
at a debian mirror to get everything else.
grant
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