Re: Installing on lap top
On 27-Sep-99 Brian Servis wrote:
> *- 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.
I used the Tecra disk and that was how I got Debian installed. A regular
rescue disk causes the laptop to reboot and reboot and .....
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Andrew
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