Re: failed installation of 1.2 on thinkpad. Tips?
In the instructions there is a possible explaination. Unless those disks
are flawless it will lock just as you have described. It's happened to
me. Sometimes you have to go through a few disks before you find a good
one. This is because DOS is more forgiving of flaws in a floppy.
On 9 May 1997, Jim Meyering wrote:
> I am trying to install Debian/GNU/Linux 1.2 from floppy disks on
> a Thinkpad w/pentium.
> I have made the 6 disks as described in
>
> ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/stable/disks-i386/current/install.html
>
> I inserted rescue diskette and power cycled.
> I read through the on-line instructions and typed
>
> linux floppy=thinkpad
>
> and hit Enter.
>
> Then I got the loading root.bin..., then loading linux......
> messages, but nothing more. It just hung -- I waited at
> least 15 minutes before giving up.
>
> Have I missed something obvious?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Jim
>
>
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