I'm new to this list and new to Debian -- I've been using RedHat for about the past two months though. Before that I was very nearly Unix-free.
A brief comb through the archives didn't turn up anything that looked like it pertained to my problem; if you know better, just let me know and maybe point me in the right direction. I'm doing my first-ever Debian install, and the target machine is an IBM thinkpad 486 with 4M RAM. The rescue floppy works fine, up to the point where it asks me to insert the root floppy, at which point I've gotten several different sorts of errors. The one I've gotten the most times is: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 VFS: Cannot open root device 02:00 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:00 This looks to me like a media error, but I've tried two different copies of the root filesystem floppy and gotten the same error on both, so now I'm thinking it might be an install program goof, or maybe Linux just doesn't like my hardware? I did once get as far as trying to run fdisk, but it didn't behave even remotely like I expect fdisk to behave, so I'm pretty sure it wasn't a real run. The boot line I'm using is: boot: floppy0 floppy=thinkpad First off, is this syntax even right? Any and all thoughts appreciated. . . -michael -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
