Thank you for the suggestion. I got it to install without the use of loadlin. I made a rescue disk on a normal 1.44 floppy and then put a debian/hamm/main/disks-i386/current tree on a LS-120 and put resc1440.bin and drv1440.bin and base2_0.tgz in the current directory. Before "installing the kernel and modules", I took out the 1.44 floppy and mounted the LS-120 floppy. Then the installation program installed everything successfully.
Now the problem is that the machine reboots after "Loading...." from the boot floppy produced during the installation. Paul On 28-Feb-98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I have persuaded a co-worker to install Debian on his machine. >> However, he has a LS-120 drive (essentially a 120MB capacity >> floppy) and no "normal" floppy drive. I wrote a resc1440.bin >> (from hamm/main/disks-i386/current) for him since rawrite2 >> will not work (apparently) with these disk drives. The problem >> is when it comes to install the kernel and modules on the HDD, >> the system cannot mount the floppy drive. I am trying to install >> Debian on /dev/hdb (an IDE drive), and /dev/hda has a NT installation. >> >> Any ideas how to overcome this? > > Perhaps by copying resc1440.bin from this LS drive to the HD, toghether with > loadlin; And running loadlin to boot into Linux ? > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . ---------------------------------- Paul Rightley DX-3 Hydrodynamics, MS P940 Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM 87545 Phone: (505)667-0460 Fax: (505)665-3359 ---------------------------------- -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
