Re: potato on 486
Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 02:00:47AM -0700, Paul Scott (waterhorse@ultrasw.com) wrote:
Hi,
I have been trying to get Debian installed on a 486 that does not know
how to boot from the CDROM. I was able to get to the CD with a Windows
98 startup diskette and execute boot.bat in the install directory.
I got as far as the "Install Operating System Kernel and Modules" I
need to choose the installation medium. The choices are first and
second floppies or currently mounted filesystem. If I choose currently
mounted filesystem I need to give a directory. I don't know what that
is. It is not /dev/hdc1. I can execute a shell but I can't seem to
mount anything which helps.
Are you trying to access the installation system on CDROM? In this
case, it's the CDR, and it should be /dev/hdc.
That gets me "no such file or directory". /dev/hdc1 gets me "not a
block device".
Are there any tools available to that shell that will help me?
As usual, your executables are in /bin, /sbin, and possibly, /usr/bin
and /usr/sbin.
$ fdisk -l
...will list all available partitions.
It seems like that was even a menu option.
Your hard drive is likely /dev/hda.
Yes and I also have another small hard drive /dev/hdb.
To mount a partition, make sure that /mnt exists, and create a mount
point underneath it:
$ mkdir /mnt/hd
$ mount /dev/hda[1-16] /mnt/hd
...where 1-16 refers to the partition number you're mounting. Note that
you can create (and mount) multiple partitions.
I tried several mounts like that without the intelligent [1-16]. I may
try again with that.
I don't think this is what you're trying to do though.
I am thinking I need a floppy system that has a driver for that CD. A
Caldera Lisa diskette hinted that I was almost there mentioned a module
but gave me no way to load it.
Peace.
Thanks,
Paul
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