Please keep list mail on-list. List added to response. Reply-to set to list. On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 06:53:37PM -0700, Screwy Squirrel (holemanj@ucs.orst.edu) wrote: > On Sat, 9 Sep 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > Can you provide more context? I'm not sure exactly where in the > > installation this is (I don't have to reinstall Debian regularly <g>), > > or if your system is *entirely* nonresponsive. Have you tried switching > > to another virtual console? > > > It occurs right after partitioning and mounting of the swap and other file > systems - when I'm about to install the kernel from the rescue floppy. I > just attempted again to see if I could switch virtual terminals, and found > that I _am_ able to do so. One of the vitual terminals has kind of an > activity log, and the message it displays is even more vague - something > to the effect that the attempt to read the rescue image from the mounted > media failed. I'm going to try downloading the rescue disk image on to a > floppy to see if maybe that will work(maybe LSL sent me a bum CD). Bad floppies are fairly common. Try cutting another rescue floppy and see what it does. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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