Installation on Toshiba 330CDT laptop
Hi everyone. I'm trying to install Debian on a Toshiba 330CDT laptop. I
have several years Unix use, but I've never tried to install Linux before.
I'm installing from CD, but I can't even get past the first page. I get
the following:
boot:
Loading root.bin13.............
Loading linux.............. (14 dots here)
and then the machine reboots, and round we go again.
I tried installing it from DOS using install.bat. I got through the whole
installation procedure but (as expected) when I tried to boot from hard
disk I got the same sort of thing:
LILO Loading linux..............
and reboots again.
I also tried rawriting rescue floppies, but they did the same as the CD.
I tried both the normal and the Tecra versions of the rescue floppies.
The 330CDT has a 266 Pentium MMX chip. I'm using the i386 distribution
from www.linuxcentral.com. It says it's Linux 2.0.34 from kernel-image-
2.0.34_2.0.34-4. I'm hoping to run Windows 98 and Linux, so I've got a
Windows partition and IBM Boot Manager installed. I made a root primary
partition, and /usr, /home and /swap logical partitions for Linux.
Many thanks in advance for any help. Any more details about my computer,
please ask.
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Stephen Turner sret1@cam.ac.uk http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/
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Until 12/98: Dept of Math & Stats, 585 King Edward Ave, Ottawa K1N 6N5, Canada
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