Re: debian installation woes
you can't boot a logical drive, it must be primary..
nate
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On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Mock Ko wrote:
> Whoops! I knew I forgot something =)
>
> I'm running a celeron 300A system, 128MB ram, adaptec
> 2940UW, Seagate 9gig (scsi) partitioned as follows:
>
> 1: w95 (1 gig)
> 2: extended (the rest of it)
> 5: linux (1gig)
> 6: vfat storage partition (2 gigs)
> 7: vfat storage partition (the rest of it)
> 8: linux swap (150 megs)
>
> Other hardware:
> - realtek 8029 PCI ethernet card (the installer can't
> find the module to install this card in the installer)
> - SB16
> - Riva TNT2 AGP
>
> I've gotten it to install and reboot off the mbr now
> (I was using system commander before, but it can't
> seem to boot the linux partition).
> Now it just complains at the first package, saying it
> can't find it.
> I'm probably just going to re-download the whole thing
> and try again.
>
>
>
> --- virtanen <hvirtane@cc.jyu.fi> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Mock Ko wrote:
> >
> > > I did the installation for debian, but it failed
> > > miserably.
> > >
> > > It did the initial install, but it crashed every
> > time
> > > I rebooted, so I booted from the boot disk I
> > created.
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I think that we need to know at least something
> > about your hardware
> > specifications, please.
> >
> > Then maybe something about partitions you created.
> >
> > Otherwise it will be quite impossible to know, what
> > went wrong.
> >
> > hv
> > hvirtane@cc.jyu.fi
> >
> >
> >
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