Problems installing

[Richard Baxter <rbaxter@midway.uchicago.edu>]

Dear debian-user's,

If there is a specific install mailing list, please advise me ...

I have tried to install two different versions of Debian GNU/Linux,
ver. 2.1 from the CD accompanying Bill McCarty's book, and the latest
version, 2.2rev3, from a CD given to me by a friend. My system does not
boot from CD-ROM, so I have created boot floppy images in both cases. My
system is a Gateway P5-60, with AMIBIOS 1.00.03, 72 MB RAM, two 516 MB
IDE HDs, Mitsumi 2x CD-ROM, and 3.5 and 5.25 inch floppy drives.

In both cases the Rescue floppy is read following startup, and I receive
the welcome screen and the boot prompt.  After hitting <ENTER> to boot,
the terminal shows:

Loading linux .................................
Uncompressing linux......OK, booting the kernel

then some stuff flys past, the last pageful is what is shown
below, and the system hangs.  Any advice on what it means and how to fix
it is much appreciated.

regards,

Richard Baxter

Code: <1> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual
address 00000292
current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 = 00101000
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010: [<c010a653>]
EFLAGS: 00010046
eax: 00000293  ebx: 00000000  ecx: 00000292  edx: 00000021
esi: 00098800  edi: c40ea000  ebp: c4800000  esp: c40e9ef4
ds: 0018  es: 0018  ss: 0018

Process swapper (pid: 1, process nr: 1, stackpage=240e9000)
Stack: (twentyfour 8 digit Hex numbers)
Call Trace: (sixteen 8 digit Hex numbers, enclosed by [< ... >])
Code: (twenty 2 digit Hex numbers)