Debian Linux on AST Ascentia 910N

["Marc Mongeon" <Mongeon@bankoe.com>]

I'm trying to install Debian Linux on an AST Ascentia 910N
laptop computer.  Booting the rescue disk with no boot parameters
causes the machine to lock up while loading root.bin.  Windows is
currently installed on the machine, and that boots up just fine.

I found a success story involving Slackware and the 910N at the
"Linux on Laptops" site (http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/ 
linux-laptop/), so I don't think there's anything too exotic
under the hood.  It has 24MB RAM, which should be sufficient.

The Debian install pages lead me to the FTP site:

ftp://kalle.csb.ki.se/pub/ 

where I found an alternate image called "resc1440.bin-non-eata-dma,"
but no explanation as to its use.  Does anybody know anything about
this?

Has anybody successfully installed Debian Linux on this model?

Thanks for your help.

Marc

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Marc Mongeon <mongeon@bankoe.com>
Unix Specialist
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