external cd install

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debs,

i'm trying to install potato on a 486 box (to be used as a firewall).  i want to install via cd from an external cdrom.

i get to the point where it needs to "install operating system kernel and modules."  i tell the box that i'm using "mounted" as the "medium" used to install the system, as it wouldn't be /dev/fd0 or /dev/fd1, right?   

i have to tell it where ~/images-1.44/rescue.bin resides, but i don't know how to name this external cdrom.

i've tried copying the files from ~/images-1.44 to the harddrive, but when i tell it find rescue.bin in /dev/hda1/<directory where files from ~/images-1.44 have been copied>, it "won't go."

suggestions?

ia, t.

bentley taylor.

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