Re: request for help
At 04:06 PM 10/7/1998 +0800, Z.S. Choy wrote:
>Hi ,
>
>I've a problem which I hope I could get some help from the experts :-
>
>I'm a new Debian user. I'm trying to install the OS into my existing
>Windows 95 pc with the following configuration :-
>
>133MHZ Pendium
>82Mbyte RAM
>Drive C: 1.2Gbyte (primary ide master)
>Drive D : 850Mbyte (2ndary ide master)
>Drive E : CDROM
>
>I plan to dedicate whole D: drive for Linux & I'm attempting to run
>Install.bat from a directory D:\debian which contains all the files
>needed to install the system.
>
>When I run install.bat from Dos prompt,
>the first Q asked was "enter Kernel image", I responded with Linux.exe;
>the installation continue until I got the following msg :
>
>Kernel panic : can't mount .....
>
>Am I doing it right ?
>Should I partition the disk first ? how ?
>
>Thks a lot for your help & advise ...
>
>b.r.,
>z.s.
I've never installed from an existing hard drive partition, but I believe
you can't install from the disk you're installing to, because that disk
will get initialized/formatted part-way through the install. You'll
probably want to move the debian directory to C:.
This won't solve your immediate problem though; hopefully someone else will
respond and give you more details.
Kent
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