I'm setting up my second system with Linux. It runs Red Hat 4.0 fine, but when I try to install Debian 1.2 (from teh December 1996 InfoMagic CD-ROM), the rescue floppy hangs at boot time. If I specify no boot parms, it hangs in probing the cm206 driver; if I tell the cm206 driver an address where no board is set, it hangs after the eata_dma complaint about no PCI BIOS extensions being present.
The system consists of a VLB motherboard with Cyrix 486DX2/80 CPU, 16 MB RAM, Hercules Dynamite Power VL ET4000/W32p VLB video, BusLogic BT445C VLB busmaster SCSI controller at 0x330, no-name NE2000 clone Ethernet board (jumper settable, and set to either 0x300 or 0x360), Sound Blaster 16 with IDE controller set to secondary IDE (and no drive conencted), SIIG I/O Professional 2-serial/parallel/IDE/floppy (set to normal addresses for all, and no IDE connected), CDC/Imprimis 340 MB Wren III SCSI disk, Panasonic CR503B SCSI CD-ROM, and 3-1/2" floppy. Any assistance will be appreciated; I've installed Debian on a laptop, and like its setup and configuration beetter than Red Hat, and would like to get it going on this system too. -- Jay Maynard, Element Manager | Never ascribe to malice that which can Messaging Services | adequately be explained by stupidity. Omnes, a Schlumberger/Cable & | "Remind me, Pinky...did Zalgar eat your Wireless Company (713) 513-3161 | brain or not?" -- The Brain -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
