Re: installation
Bruce Perens wrote:
>
> 1.3? We're only up to 1.1 . Please verify that you got the
>boot floppies via FTP from the unstable/disks-i386
>directory on one of our FTP sites, not from a CD or
>anywhere else.
Dear Bruce,
Thank you for responding.
Just to comfirm, I did get the files from
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/unstable/disks-i386/, and
specifically: "1440_boot_floppy-1.3.100-4". The 1.3 at the
end of this file led me to believe it's version.
BTW why is there four of these? Which one should I pick?
Here's the copy that followed the result of inserting my
root disk at the prompt:
"RAMDISK 1474560 starting 0x00240000
insert root
VFS: Disk change detected on device 210
RAM disk trying oldstyle RAM image
RAM disk trying oldstyle RAM image
insert Debian GNU/Linux Root Disk and press enter"
When I do this I get this message:
"[MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT
12,check=n,conv=b,vid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
[me=0x6c,cs=1248,#f=m,fs=40358,f1=27462,ds,8448,de=29807,dat
a=10320,se=26207,ts=-808993323,ls=133641]
transaction block size=512
HPFS: hpfs_read_super: not HPFS
kernel panic: VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 0:0200"
>That BusLogic interface should work. The driver should look
>for it at one of the addresses 0x330, 0x334, 0x230, 0x234,
>0x130, 0x134. Is the kernel saying anything that might be
>related to the BusLogic or SCSI in general when it boots?
>If so, please copy the output for us.
> Thanks
> Bruce
Well, just for fun I went back to the 93R directory and
downloaded those images to see if I could do any better.
This time I made it through to the color partition menu, but
again was unable to find any drives or partitions to talk
with the interface. So I just restarted and aborted the
effort until I found out more. (I gave a quick look at
freeBSD and quickly repented after finding the install
documentation to be much more user hostile).
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