Re: installing Debian 2.0 r3
Thanks for your response - however, I'd included "linux" (the name used on
both floppies and CD). It must be my parameters which are incorrect. Booting
from CD-ROM, the 3rd Hard Drive and with "boot.bat" and "linux" in the
"install" directory what parameters should work? Today, I changed the
CD-ROM drive from 'master' to 'slave' on the second IDE connector (having
read somewhere that sometimes problems can arise if a CD-ROM is master
and the only drive). I get nowhere, and yet RedHat and SuSE still install
from the CD-ROM by merely hitting 'enter'.
Regards, John.
on 12 May 99, Michael Beattie wrote...
>
>When you enter "parameters" you must also include the kernel name. such as
>"linux" (I cant remember if that is the name used on the install floppies)
>
>so:
>
>LILO boot: linux [parameters]
>
>
>On Tue, 11 May 1999, John wrote:
>
>> I have a spare machine onto which I am trying to install 2.0 r3. The machine
has
>> a
>> Pentium MMX166 processor, two hard drives (one 426Mb with DOS 6.2 and W3.11:
>> the other 1.1Gb empty and available for Linux), 32Mb FPM physical RAM, 1.44
>> Floppy,
>> 32x CD-ROM Drive, an S3 Virge/DX(PCI) Video Card and an SB compat Sound Card
>> the Monitor is SVGA.
>>
>> The Motherboard is TX/1 and the BIOS Award which supports CD-ROM booting,
both
>> Hard Drives are on the Primary and the CD-ROM is Master on the Secondary.
>>
>> I have little computer experience (although now reasonably knowledgeable with
>> W95),
>> am new to DOS and a complete newbie with Linux - also I'm old. I've turned to
>> Linux
>> for interest and to avoid these persistent 'blue screens' on the main
machine.
>>
>> I possess two sets of distributions acquired with Samms introductory book and
>> WGS
>> Encyclopadia and can install RedHat and SuSE, but not Debian which may well
be
>> the distribution best suited to me. Both the InfoMagic and Linux Mall discs
are
>> of
>> the same version and each gives identical results.
>>
>> Booting direct from the CD-Rom Drive loads Root.bin and Linux, but whatever I
do
>> at
>> the boot prompt puts me into a continual rebooting cycle. I've tried all the
>> parameters
>> referred and alluded to in the help files and books. A straight <enter> goes
to
>> reboot
>> (after some uncompressing too rapid to read). Adding parameters results in
>> 'can't
>> find kernel'.
>>
>> I've created floppies from files downloaded from ftp.debian (RSC1440.bin,
>> DRV1440.bin, Base-1.bin to Base-5.bin and Root.bin). Booting with RSC1440.bin
>> in the floppy drive puts me into the same automatic rebooting cycle and no
>> parameters
>> work - the 'can't find' message is displayed. I getthe chance to use only one
>> disk.
>>
>> Can anyone, kindly, explain what I'm failing to comprehend or what I'm doing
>> wrong.
>> I would appreciate help (otherwise I may be stuck with Mr Gate's water
>> torture!).
>> Incidentally, to check if some machine fault has developed, I've again booted
>> SuSE
>> from the CD-ROM Drive and I got direct to the installation program.
>> John.
>>
>>
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