Installation problem
Hi,
Ive been trying to install Debian 1.2 for the last few days with
absolutely no success. The problem is occuring VERY early on in the
process, while trying to boot from the initial rescue/boot floppy. The
system happily displays all the device initialisation messages, and after
the cd-rom is found, displays the text something like:
MD driver Max_device=4 max_real_device=8
And freezes at that point. I at first thought it was my cdrom being
unrecognised, but adding
hdc=cdrom to the boot prompt gave indicatations just prior to the above
error
that the cd had been found and initialised properly.
I was using the boot images from the Infomagic December cdrom pack, until
I get newer cd's, though trying to get those is another story in itself.
I then yesterday got a boot image from a local ftp.debian.org mirror dated
sometime in January, and tried it on a different computer, with exactly
the same result. Now this 2nd computer has no cdrom, so is this my
problem and if so what should I do?
I should add that in sheeer frustration I made a redhat boot disk and it
installed with absolutely no problem, so Im thinking theres not something
fundamentally wrong with my system.
Can anyone give me some assistance here?
Garry
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G.A. Turkington gary@reddwarf.qub.ac.uk
Image Processing Specialist Group
Department of Computer Science, The Queen's University Of Belfast
Why stop now just when I'm hating it? - Marvin the paranoid android
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