Problems with new install on old laptop

[Tim Bell <bhat@cs.mu.OZ.AU>]

I have an old 486 DX2-66 laptop which currently has a 1.1.59-based
Linux installation, and I'm trying to install Debian on it.  Booting
with the rescue disk is fine until just after it loads the md driver, at
which point it hangs.  I haven't seen this with any of the other Debian
installs, but then again, this is the first time I've installed on a
laptop.

Are there any other Debian boot floppies I might try, perhaps for hamm?
(I've tried installing the boot-floppies package in case I need to make
my own, but the hamm package wants libc5-pic, which isn't available.)

Any other tips? I've had a quick look at the Linux on Laptops page
(http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/), but I'm not
convinced this is necessarily a laptop-specific problem.

TIA,

Tim.
-- 
Tim Bell - bhat@cs.mu.oz.au - Dept of Comp Sci - Uni of Melbourne, Australia


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