Debian (not Linux) newbie
@SUBJECT:Debian (not Linux) newbie question #2 N
Hi again all...
Question #2 of problems getting Debian install. I tried a test install of
Pacific Hi-Tech's Debian 1.1.1 CD-ROM on another hard drive (not the one
I'm trying to backup) on Friday. All went okay until I got to the part
about making a boot floppy.
When prompted I stuck a blank floppy in drive a:. The installation
program churned out a bunch of 'probing for floppy0' messages and
eventually died with 'can't find device' error. I figured it was a bad
floppy, so I stuck in another. Same result. Stuck in a third disk. Same
thing again.
I finally booted Red Hat and just copied over my 2.0.17 kernel to a
floppy, ran rdev to set / properly. When I rebooted with the floppy
Debian came up.
My question is, am I doing something wrong with the Debian installation or
is there a bug in 1.1.1?
Debian looks like an interesting Linux distribution to play with--as soon
as I get things properly backed up and installed. :-)
Thanks in advance for any help y'all can offer.
Bob
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* ATP/Linux 1.42 * Linux, the choice of a GNU generation.
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