problem with bootdisks - not booting
I'm a first time Debian user - not even that, since I can't even install
it ;) I'm using the boot disks found in
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian2.2r6/main/disks-i386/2.2.26-2001-06-14/images-1.44/
/compact and /safe.
After successfully dd'ing the images to a few floppies, I tried booting
first with the "rescue.bin" disk. I see all the Debian stuff come up,
and I get to the "boot:" prompt. There are no parameters I'm aware of
that I need to pass, so I hit enter to continue. I then get "Loading
linux..." and soon after, I get "Boot failed: please change disks and
press a key to continue." I assumed that meant I needed the root disk,
but that didn't work. I've tried a dozen different floppy disks, with
images from both /current and /safe, with no success.
The system I've got is an IBM Personal Computer, P133, 40 megs ram, ATI
All-in-Wonder PCI vga adapter, SCSI Adaptec AHA-2940 adapter, with scsi
HD, scsi cd-rom, and scsi tape drive. Unfortunatly I don't believe it's
possible to boot from cd on this system. I also think it's a PCI/MCA
system.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
-- Duke.
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