Re: Installing on lap top
*- On 27 Sep, lib wrote about "Installing on lap top"
> I am trying to install Debian 2.1 using a rescue disk on a Toshiba Satellite
> Pro 440 laptop. I made the rescue disk with RAWRITE2.EXE. After the boot
> messages with all the dots (.......), the system shuts down. The system
> previously ran Windows 95 with some boot loader that let me specify a hardware
> configuration. Maybe that has something to do with it?
>
FYI, there is a debian-laptop mailing list that might be able to
provide better help for laptop specific problems.
I am not speaking from experience but have you tried the
rescue1440tecra images? If I recall the Toshiba's and IBM's seem to
suffer from a problem described in the README.tecra file that is in the
disk directory on the archive.
HTH,
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Brian
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