Can't boot debian 0.93 on compaq contura aero

[Jonas August <august@cim.mcgill.ca>]

I just downloaded debian and purged my compaq laptop of windows, and
now I've just attempted to install debian 0.93 but the booting doesn't
complete.  The boot disk loaded OK, and requested me to insert the
root disk.   The root disk loaded, but then I got a "terminal error".
Behold a transcript:

RAMDISK: Loading 1440 blocks into RAM disk.......................................................................................
done
VFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem)
Error opening terminal: linux

I tried making new root disks, on different physical floppies, but to
no avail.  I'm quite sure that Linux is compatible with my system, as
I had a Slackware distribution install six months ago.

Please help.

Jonas August
Centre for Intelligent Machines, McGill University
3480 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada  H3A 2A7
Internet: august@cim.mcgill.ca  Tel: (514) 398-7158  Fax: (514) 398-7348