Re: puzzler

[Rino Mardo <rino@debbie.dyndns.org>]

On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 08:50:40AM -0700 or thereabouts, DMGrant wrote:
> I am new and trying to install debian 2.0
> I did the fips thing on my fat32 (V.2.0) and now have the following on a
> total disk space of 3682 MB:
> 
> Partition 1    non dos    299MB    
> Partition 2    non dos    201MB     (I don't know where these came from,
> they were there when I got here)
> Partition C: 3     PRI DOS      1512 MB    FAT32          41%usage
> Partition D: 4     PRI DOS       1666MB     UNKNOWN   45%usage
> 
> I only put this here to see if I get any feedback....
> 
> then I boot up with the debian 2.0 cd in and it asks me to boot and I press
> enter.
> It huims along and seems to be having a great time and shortly after the
> hda and hdb lines, this one comes up and the machine freezes:
> 
> md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
> 
> any suggestions what I should be looking for?
> 
> Thanks for any help
> 
> This is fun....I'm clueless but it's still fun.
> 
> dmgrant

yeah, first look for a debian 2.2 CD as your distro is rather outdated :-)

there are alot of fine folks here ready to help.  you might start with giving
us your system config (as in hardware) as maybe 2.0 doesn't support 'em.
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