hi everybody, my name is Dieter and I'm having problems to install the debian Linux distribution.
My hardware: - Mobo Shuttle HOT-419 (VLB with Opti chipset), AMD486/133, 32 MB RAM - Adaptec AHA2842 (IRQ 11) - ATI Graphics Turbo (Mach32 mit 2 MB VRAM) - NE2000 compatiple card IRQ 15 IO 0x300 - IO card, 2x par (IRQ/IO as usual), 4x ser (COM1-COM2 IRQ/IO as usual, COM3 IRQ 10 IO as usual, COM4 IRQ 12 IO 0x2F0) This hardware is successfully running Linux 1.2.13 (Slakware 2.3) since 2 years. During the last 2 weeks I installed Caldera Open Linux Standard 1.1 and Slakware 3.2 (both employ kernel 2.0.29) without any problems. That means: the 'all-purpose' boot diskettes started Linux successfully. Now I tried the debian distribution 1.2 (with kernel 2.0.27) I found on my Infomagic Linux Developer's Resource (6-CD-set inluding Slakware 3.2, RedHat 4.1). I made the RESCUE floppy with 'dd if=rsc1440.bin of=/dev/fd0H1440 bs=512' (tried it with several diskettes and even with rsc1440r.bin) and got in every case the following boot messages: summary: aic7xxx detected and initialization messages --> aic7xxx: encountered spurious interrupt some other messages related to probing other hardware follows --> scanning channel A for devices --> aborting command due to timeout --> pid 0, scsi 0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 --> test unit ready 00 00 00 00 --> kernel panic: scsi 0 BRKADRINT, error 0x1, seqaddr 0x0 I suspect, that the composition of the debian kernel is somewhat different than those of Caldera and Slakware, but I have no idea in what matter. I hope, that some of the debian gurus can give me some help. TIA and have a nice day. Dieter -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .