Re: Laptop Installation problem
It worked well for me by:
1. Made sure there was spare disk space for a linux ext2 partition (though
experts can install debian through umsdos).
2.Copying all the installation disks to my FAT16 partition.
3. Since I was using Win95, rebooted, holding down F8 and then selected the
boot option (paraphrasing): DOS prompt with no device drivers loaded (ie,
minimizing the number of drivers windows has loaded).
4. cd'd to where I installed the installation disks, ran install.bat.
5. I got far more trouble from getting used to the install program. Had to do
this about five times before I figured out what was going on.
It sounds like you are not really even getting to step 5 ? Try this sequence
and maybe step 3 is what was being overlooked. If not, check out more laptop
info, starting at www.linux.org and going through their laptop resources for
your particular laptop. Someone may have noticed there is something special you
have to do for your make and brand.
On
14-Oct-98 Alexander Kushnirenko wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was able to install linux on IBM ThinkPad 380XD, thru loadlin. Install.bat
> worked fine. (Booting from diskette or LILO was hopeless.) But important
> thing is that you have FAT16, not FAT32. You may prepare a little FAT16
> partition (using FIPS for example), format it for FAT16 and put installation
> files there.
>
> Sasha.
>
>> I have just spent a day trying to install debian on my NEC versa laptop,
>> which has a pentium 133, 24 meg of ram and a 1gig hard drive.
>>
>> I have tried to install off my HD using the procedure in the document
>> "Installing Debain Linux 2.0 for x86". Once the install.bat file is
>> executed, the expected cryptic information about hardware is displayed.
>> However during the process, it freezes and displays:
>>
>> VFS: Cannot open root device 08:02
>> kernel panic: VFH: Unable to mount root fs on 08:02
>>
>> I then tried installing via the recue disk. It managed to get to the boot
>> prompt ok, but whilst it was uncompressing it stoped and displayed a boot
>> error.
>>
>> I then attempted to use the resc1440tecra.bin rescue disk for laptops,
>> which failed to get to the prompt displaying a boot failure. I then tried
>> the other rescue disk, which then did the same thing as the laptop recue.
>>
>> I would really appreciate some help!
>>
>
>
>
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Date: 13-Oct-98
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