Re: Installation Problems
Wow! That is a great doc for installing debian!
There doesn't seem to be an update for the BIOS
(http://www.compaq.com/support/files/notebooks/us/locate/1_878.html).
The kernel boots well from the harddrive - it is the filesystem
mounting that doesn't work.
I tried putting root on /dev/fd0 as you described in your doc, but it
still doesn't mount.
I found one way to get it mounted:
loadlin linux boot=/dev/ram initrd=boot.bin disksize=1.44
but then there seems to be a problem with init=
- the kernel says that I should pass init= to it.
I don't know what. (single doesn't work)
What should I try?
Margaret wrote:
>I assume that no one responded to my original
message because it was
>in rich text format so here it is again -
hopefully in plain text
>this time.
[ ... ]
I've installed Debian on a similar computer (without
a CD-ROM drive)
and along the way had to deal with the error message
you're seeing. I
carefully documented everything...
http://www.lafn.org/~cymbala/Debian/t4700ct.html
and
http://www.lafn.org/~cymbala/Debian/t4700ct.html#install
In particular, check-out this part:
"Here's another way to boot from Rescue Disk that
worked with BIOS
version 2.70"
My best tip is this: Check your BIOS version. The
computer I had was
given to me with BIOS 2.70 and it needed to be
upgraded to 5.0 (big
leap). Upgrading the BIOS made the Debian disks
work a lot better!
Yours,
--
Robert Cymbala cymbaLa@Lafn.org ...or...
rCymbala@yahoo.com
QUEBEC CITY -- The leaders of 34 Western
Hemisphere nations...
promised to create a hemisphere in which `no
one is left
behind.' -- April 23. JAMES GERSTENZANG,
L.A. Times
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