Re: Problems installing Debian
I have never seen this particular behavior before. However, strange
problems during installation from floppys is often attributable to
corupt floppys. The rawwrite or dd process usually used to make installation
floppys from downloaded images does not tolerate bad media very well.
I suggest remaking your rescue disk on a different floppy. But first, check
the floppy for bad sectors by formatting it under dos or whatever, or any
other method you find convienient. Even better, use a new floppy, if you
have one handy, checking it for bad sectors first.
Hope this helps
Mike
On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 02:59:21PM -0500, Alexander Bugeja wrote:
> I am trying to install Debian from floppy (I have the rescue, driver
> and 5 base floppies set up) on my AMD K6 machine. However
> when I try to start the installation, with the rescue disk, the
> machine just reboots. More specifically, I first get the
> following messages....
>
> Loading root.bin...........
> Loading Linux...........
> Uncompressing Linux........
>
> .... followed by a string of messages too fast to read, and then
> the machine reboots all over again, leaving me right where I started.
>
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