On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Hans M. Pedersen wrote: > Hello ! > > I have been trying for about two days to install Debian 1.3.1 on a > Thinkpad > 760ED with XGA graphics - but without any luck :-( > > When I boot from the rescue disk (yes - I have used the floppy=thinkpad > option), the root.bin and linux are loaded - and nothing more. After the > newline in 'Loading linux..............' the machine simply stops and > are > completely non-responsive.
Try the Tecra Base Floppy Set which should be available on every debian mirror. The standard set contains a bzImage which Thinkpads cannot handle for some unknown reason. So you have to boot a zImage-Kernel. I heard the tecra set had a zImage kernel for such compatibility reasons. If that's not true (you can find out with a 'file *' on the bootdisk) you need to build one. Probably you'll have to copy the pcmcia- and kernel-sources to your laptop by hand afterwards to get pcmcia-support, maybe there is a pcmcia-support binary around for the targa kernel. Otherwise, look into the old messages here (old i.e. last week), there was a discussion about installing pcmcia-support on a 5-floppy-disk-base-installation. Gruss -- Lukas Eppler (godot) http://www.fear.ch telnet://soil.fear.ch:3333 talk:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .