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Re: Debian 2.0 Installation halts (fwd)



Try the resc1440tecra.bin disk instead, that fixed a similar problem on my
thinkpad 560e.

On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 12:46:20PM +0300, Boris D. Beletsky wrote:
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 11:40:59 +0200
> From: Remo Badii <Remo.Badii@psi.ch>
> To: BORIK@debian.org
> Subject: Debian 2.0 Installation halts
> 
> Dear Debian user,
> 
> I have been using S.u.S.E. Linux 4.2 for 2 years and today I tried to
> install Debian 2.0 from CDs (CS-Software, Christian Schwarz) on my
> Thinkpad 760 CD, with 40 MB RAM and a new 2.1 GB hard disk on which I
> just created a 102 MB partition with DOS on it. DOS works, as well as CD
> support, Modem, etc.
> When I start boot.bat from D:, however, Loadlin works but soon says
> Uncompressing Linux...
> ran out of input data
> System halted
> 
> and I can only switch off the machine.
> 
> I noticed that the file ltecra must be passed to loadlin.exe instead of
> linux for Tecra notebooks and, as mentioned in readme-t, for "other
> notebooks" (because of a patch to 2.0.33).
> Hence, I copied boot.bat to my hard disk, inserted the line
> D:
> before
> CD BOOT
> and changed the last line to 
> LOADLIN.EXE LTECRA ...
> 
> Now I got the message
> A20 gating failed
> 
> and everything blocked.
> 
> Any clue?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Yours sincerely,
> 
> Remo Badii
> 
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