Re: Need help with installing Debian on a COMPAC PRESARIO 5716
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Preben Randhol wrote:
> I'm now going to install debian on a third machine. So far everything
> has gone nice, but the third machine is a bit troublesome.
>
> It is a COMPAC PRESARIO 5716. The problem is that this machine shows a
> big red Q at startup and no BIOS info. I therefore do not know which
> keys to press to access the BIOS in order to turn on CD-ROM booting. It
> currently boots from floppy first before hard disc.
>
> So is it possible to make one or perhaps two floppy boot discs that
> could boot it up and the switch to do the rest of the installation from
> the CDs I have of Potato TC 2 ?
Take a look at:
http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html
There is a explanation about the methods of installing Debian. Do you
have a win/dos partition? The way I like more is to install the base
system from hard disk and the other packages from CD.
If you don't have the dos partition, I think drv1440.bin and root.bin are
the disks you need.
[]s,
Marcio
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