Installation problems..
Hello from a wanna-be Debian user. I'm not really a Debian user because
I can't get it installed. Is there any type of thorough documentation
for the Debian installation process, like the Installation-HOWTO for
Slackware?
Here's what's going on. I've got Pacific HiTech's November Linux Monthly
CD-ROM. I made the 1440 boot, root, and base disks. I can boot the
system and get as far as mounting the partitions, but when I try to
install from the base disks, the installation program won't recognize the
disks. It gives a message like "this is disk 0 of 0 of set basedisk
1440..." and I can get no further. Any ideas? Am I missing something
simple?
BTW, I'm using loadlin to boot the kernel instead of booting from the
boot floppy. I use 'loadlinx standard root=a: ramdisk=0'. This is
necessary because I have only 4 megs of RAM, and if I boot from the boot
floppy I get 'cat: virtual memory exhausted' and the system dies.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I would like to get Debian
installed yesterday. :) Thanks.
- Matt
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* Matthew C. Masuda * "That which does not kill us makes *
* mcmasuda@greatbasin.com * us stranger." - Trevor Goodchild *
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