Hi everyone. I'm trying to install Debian on a Toshiba 330CDT laptop. I have several years Unix use, but I've never tried to install Linux before.
I'm installing from CD, but I can't even get past the first page. I get the following: boot: Loading root.bin13............. Loading linux.............. (14 dots here) and then the machine reboots, and round we go again. I tried installing it from DOS using install.bat. I got through the whole installation procedure but (as expected) when I tried to boot from hard disk I got the same sort of thing: LILO Loading linux.............. and reboots again. I also tried rawriting rescue floppies, but they did the same as the CD. I tried both the normal and the Tecra versions of the rescue floppies. The 330CDT has a 266 Pentium MMX chip. I'm using the i386 distribution from www.linuxcentral.com. It says it's Linux 2.0.34 from kernel-image- 2.0.34_2.0.34-4. I'm hoping to run Windows 98 and Linux, so I've got a Windows partition and IBM Boot Manager installed. I made a root primary partition, and /usr, /home and /swap logical partitions for Linux. Many thanks in advance for any help. Any more details about my computer, please ask. -- Stephen Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/ Normally: Statistical Laboratory, 16 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1SB, England Until 12/98: Dept of Math & Stats, 585 King Edward Ave, Ottawa K1N 6N5, Canada Microsoft: Where am I allowed to go today?
