RE: CD not bootable
Generally if you have a CD, IIRC you need a root disk and a rescue disk.
Boot from the rescue disk, swap to the root disk when asked, and voila,
you're installing.
HTH,
Brooks
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Visvanath Ratnaweera [mailto:ratnaweera@dplanet.ch]
> Sent: Saturday, 25 August, 2001 07:07 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: CD not bootable
>
>
> Hi all
>
> This must be a pretty standard question but I couldn'f find what I need.
>
> I have the Debian 2.2 (Potato) CD's which were the source of quite a few
> installation. In all those I could boot from the CD.
>
> The present candidate, a Toshiba Satellite Laptop with Pentium 266 MMX,
> refuses to boot from the CD. I made a rescue floppy from DOS
> usring rawrite2
> which boots fine.
>
> This is the quesiton: How do I install by making a minimum number
> of floppies?
>
> Ideally this rescue CD should be suffiecient. The kernel in the
> rescue floppy
> recognizes the CD. Can I give something like "linux root=...." so
> that the CD
> will take control?
>
> Cheers
> Visvanath.
>
>
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