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Re: Installation off CD



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On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 20:30:11 +0200, Michael Heldebrant wrote:
> On 15 Aug 2001 22:19:21 +0000, bboy boy wrote:
>> To whom it may concern,
>> 
>> Whenever I try to instal debian linux 2.2r3 off the cd (bootable) it 
>> installs the basehurd.tgz archive but then I don't know what to do because 
>> if I restart the PC then when booting off the hard disk, on the command line 
>> it just comes up and says
>> 
>> LI
>> 
>> thats it! whats wrong, can you help me to install debian??
>> 
> 
> Boot using your rescue disk and then set the root to your appropriate
> harddrive partition.  Try changing your lilo.conf to comment out lba32
> and try linear in it's place.  Thats worked for me.
> 
> --mike
> 

Or if you do not have lba32 in lilo.conf, try putting it there.  If you have
a big drive and /boot is above 1024, you might need lba32 instead of linear. 
If you use lba32, you have to delete linear.

Anita



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