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Re: Install-boot failure



Hi,

In my case, on one machine, I tried with boot diskette, the
two cdroms(slink and potato), but in all cases, I got stuck
with the same problem. So as of now, all options of installing
debian (local + thru net) seems gone.

Suresh

On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 08:02:37AM -0700, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote:
> I have experience similar problem but with red hat. We
> found out that it was the CD and not the CD-drive. If
> your going to install potato, I would suggest trying
> the network based install with 2 floppies (if you have
> a fast enough network connection). It is the easiest
> and keeps the system uptodate with the latest. Or else
> I would try burning another CD.
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> -Dinesh
> 
> --- "Suresh Kumar.R" <sudhas@md3.vsnl.net.in> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > When I try to boot from the debian slink or potato
> > cd, the boot process
> > apparently hangs with the following line:
> > 
> > 	FDC 0 is a post - 1991 82077
> > 	md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
> > 
> > The interesting thing is , we are able to put Redhat
> > linux into the same
> > machine. We are trying to remove redhat to put
> > debian.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> > Suresh
> >
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > Suresh Kumar.R				Email: suresh@mycampus.com
> > Dept of Electronics & Communication
> > College of Engineering, Trivandrum - 695 016
> > INDIA



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