Hello, I'm new to Debian but I've been using Linux for nearly 8 years. I'm trying to install Debian on my IBM Thinkpad 701C (the butterfly keyboard laptop), which has a 75MHz 486, 16MB of RAM and a 360MB hard drive. It used to have RedHat 6.2 on it, but that was end-of-lifed, and subsequent releases couldn't be installed on such a meager machine. It has no CD so I have to use floppies. I made the testing boot, floppy and net_drivers floppies, and plan to do the main install over the net. I booted from the boot floppy and then inserted the 2nd floppy. That's when I started having problems. First, I got lots of lines saying: cp: Write Error: No space left on device Then it says Starting the installer, and then it tells me (infinitely): info: Trying to enable linux framebuffer using /lib/modules/...etc../vesafb.o modprobe: failed to load module vesafb I have to go into another console and run shutdown to get it to stop. I tried booting with video=vga16:off but that didn't help at all. I looked in the appropriate location, and vesafb.o really isn't there. I guess the root of the problem is that the installer can't copy some files it needs (thus the cp errors) but I don't see why not. df tells me that shm is 6.9M in size and has 4.6M free. /etc/mtab shows rootfs, but it doesn't show up when I do df (?). I cleared off 170 MB on the disk before I started, so I don't think that's a problem. Can anyone help me, please? -- Stuart Luppescu -=- s-luppescu .at. uchicago.edu University of Chicago -=- CCSR 才文と智奈美の父 -=- Kernel 2.4.23-ck1 Don't hate yourself in the morning -- sleep till noon.
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