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Re: rescue disk install



Hi,

On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 09:17:40PM -0600, Jeff Conder wrote:
> Hi - I have not been able to get past the rescue disk install.

Which version potato/woody stable/testing?  I assume potato ;-)

> I've read and searched through the documents and haven't
> found anything that relates to what I perceive is the problem.
> 
> Any help on this would be appreciated:
> 
> My system is - 900MHz Athelon, 128M RAM, 60G IDE Hard
> drive, Adaptec SCSI PCI adapter, HP 10/100 Fast Ethernet
> PCI card, USB keyboard & mouse.

Nice.  I just installed potato to 486DX4 50MHz. (Here)

> I downloaded the i386 rescue binary for compact install
> and for basic install, same problems. Used rawrite2 to
> make a floppy. The floppy works fine, get the boot: prompt.

How about root and driver-? disks?

> I have tried normal boot (return), linux mem=128m, and
> linux mem=128m kbd-reset

That"s good but ... (W/o them can still boot with 64MB)

> My symptoms are - No major error messages, but can't
> stop the scroll. ATA keboard is not found during the
> process. I get to a prompt asking for the root disk
> to be inserted, then I'm suppose to press the ENTER
> key.

Only after you enter root disk into /dev/fd0

> But, my keyboard does not seem to work. I can't
> get past this point.
> 


See official install guide:
http://www.debian.org/doc/admin-manuals


Also this is helpful.
http://www.debian.org/doc/ddp

Also peek-into my experiences in my web page...  Good luck ;-)
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