Re: failed installation of 1.2 on thinkpad. Tips?
I have had this very same problem. I solved it by using the old Debian 1.1
boot/base disks. Then I pointed dselect to Debian 1.2. This worked well and
was the only way (short of possibly creating a custom boot disk) that I found. I
also had no problem installing Slackware on my Thinkpad...
HTH,
Paul
P.S. You should be able to find Debian 1.1 disks on one of the main Debian ftp
machines (but I have forgotten which one).
On 12-May-97 Jim Meyering wrote:
>>First, thanks to all who have taken the time to reply.
>I really appreciate all the help.
>
> cph@martigny.ai.mit.edu (Chris Hanson) writes:
> | 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.
>
>I tried with the pre-1.3 rescue disk, with all combinations
>of the options floppy=thinkpad and floppy=... to no avail.
>I still haven't gotten past the `loading linux....' part.
>Here's more info that I should have mentioned before:
>
> I'm using a thinkpad 760EL
> there's an internal CD-ROM drive
> the floppy drive is external
>
>I have not tried the floppyless installation because <blush> I don't
>even know how to boot DOS on this system, and haven't found any
>instructions for the floppyless install. Pointers welcome.
>
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