Re: Help with installing Debian 1.2 (#2)
Xinbing Liu wrote:
>
> Well, I sort of stumbled through the two problems I reported earlier (see
> the included message below). To solve the "unable to open initial
> console" problem with the created boot floppy, I found out that I had to
> press ENTER twice at the "boot:" prompt. (If I don't it will hang, very,
> very strange. BTW, I was using the rescue disk created on Dec. 8.
>
> Now the new problem: Debian 1.2 boots up, asks for root password and a
> user name, etc. All goes okay until it drops me into 'dselect'. I
> select ftp as the installation method. Then following the prompt on
> screen, I choose 'ftp.debian.org' as the ftp site, etc. But it hangs at
> 'connecting to ftp.debian.org', nothing happens. I had to "control-C" to
> get out. I checked my ethernet connection with 'ifconfig' command, it seems
> to be working okay--it receives and transmits packets.
>
> I checked 'ftp.debian.org' with another computer, it connects to
> santanni.cc.gatech.edu. I tried this name too, same thing. It seems ftp
> in the dselect software is not working correctly, any ideas?
>
> Xinbing
>
> -----------------------
> Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 11:26:28 -0500 (EST)
> From: Xinbing Liu <monkey@engin.umich.edu>
> To: debian-user@pixar.com
> Subject: Help with installing Debian 1.2
>
> Hi, I'm trying to install Debian 1.2 stable version for the fiest
> time. I downlowaded the six floppies from www.debian.org.
> My computer's configuration: P 90 MHz, 32 MB, PCI bus, two SCSI disks,
> scsi controller is NCR53c810 (so the computer reports),
> first disk 1 GB with MS DOS installed, second disk 2.5 GB where I
> want to install Debian, one 1.44 MB floppy, no CD-ROM. I have been
> running Slackware linux for 2 years.
>
> Here are the problems:
>
> ---When booting from the Rescue disk, if I just hit return at the
> boot: prompt, it hangs at the
> $ld cm206.c v.99. ... Exp$
> line. After some fiddling, I found that if I say "linux cm206=0" at the
> boot: prompt, it reports "unable to find the device" (something to that
> effect) at the "$ld cm206...." line, and goes on. After that I was able to
> install the base system and the device drivers.
>
> ---At the end of install, I was asked to make a boot floppy, so
> I put in a new disk and made one. After that I was asked to reboot
> the computer with the boot floppy, so I did. With this boot
> floppy, I still had to enter "linux cm206=0" at the boot: prompt,
> otherwise it would hang. But after that and some messages later,
> the computer reports "unable to initialize console" or something
> like that and hangs. And I don't know what to do!
>
> Please help. Many thanks.
>
> PS. I've seen two other people on this list with similar problems. If
> these two people got private answers, please forward them to me. Thanks.
>
> Xinbing
>
Ok, so the interface is up. Do you also have the correct IP set?
Do you have the correct routes set? Do you have /etc/resolv.conf
set as well? (You can test these all at once by trying to ping
ftp.debian.org).
--
Jens B. Jorgensen
jjorgens@bdsinc.com
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