Thanks,I had a feeling it was something like that. I've decided to go ahead and 'upgrade' the old IBM for a "Joe's Garage" blue plate special.
-mac <with screwdriver in hand> mccaskie Kent West wrote:
Mac McCaskie wrote:I've been trying to re-install deb stable from a CD (3.0r2 and 3.0r1 images were downloaded and burned to disk), the old system got hosed somehow. The CD is not bootable on the old IBM box (but is on another system).Problem might be two-fold.1- I am able to get an older CD (the net-install CD with 3.0r1) to boot on the downed system).2-After I get the install up (from the CD what WILL boot), I can re-partition the HDD and all but when it gets to loading the drivers I get "There was a problem loading drivers from ...<path>..." on all CD's, some of which are duplicates.Any ideas?Older CD-ROM drives tended to have problems reading burned CDs; if you have another CD-ROM drive around, try throwing that in the old IBM temporarily for the install.Another option is to use a floppy-based install (13 or so floppies), which will get you far enough along to then use a network connection (ethernet or dial-up) to pull down the rest of what you need.Or you can pull the hard drive out and put it temporarily in another machine and either install Debian there, or create a smallish FAT32 partition and put the installer files there, and then back on the original box, when asked where the driver files are, point to the FAT32 partition instead of the CD-ROM. You can later convert this FAT32 partition to some other partition, such as /tmp or swap, etc.Or, if the CD-ROM in the IBM will boot and run a Knoppix CD and you can gain access to the Internet to grab the installer files, you can essentially do the above paragraph without moving hardware from one machine to another.