Re:Debian on a Gateway 400XL
Matt Gerginski <mattgerg@users.sourceforge.net>:
> Hi, IU've been using debian for about one year now on my desktop PC,
> and I just got a Gateway 400XL for college. I really want to put
> debian on it, however, I cannot seem to boot it from any rescue
> disks in order to install it. I'd really like to use woody or
> sarge, but I'll use whatever I can get to work... when booting, the
> boot process just stops here:
>
> ..... Floppy Drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a national
> semiconductor PC87306 md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
>
Have you checked your BIOS settings. Make CDROM the first boot device,
or at least before the hard disc. I have 1st: floppy, 2nd: CDROM, 3rd:
hard disc 1.
Chris
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