Re: failed installation of 1.2 on thinkpad. Tips?

[cph@martigny.ai.mit.edu (Chris Hanson)]

   From: Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>
   Subject: failed installation of 1.2 on thinkpad.  Tips?

   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?

I used these disks to install on a ThinkPad 760C about a month ago.
They worked fine.

The most likely answer to your problem is that you should not use
"floppy=thinkpad"; I didn't use it on the 760C.  Modern ThinkPads do
not need that switch, only older ones, such as the trusty 755C I'm
using right now.


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