I am currently attempting to install debian 2.0 (hamm) on a
486-25MHz computer with 4MB of memory using floppy disks.
When I go through the installation program, everything seems to work
okay, after about five trials. I always seem to get stuck at the point
where I have a choice of making a bootable floppy or booting from hard
disk
Lilo says I have bad disk geometry 0/0/0. Which is wierd because in
the partioning program run by the lowmem disk, I had to set the
cyclinders,head, and sectors through the experts menu. After writing
the partion table, the disk or the operating system "forgets" these
settings somehow, and I have to retype them in. The installation
program on the rescue disk also "forgets" right after I get done type
them in!! The hard drive I'm using is a Conner 420A hard disk with 826
cylinder,63 sectors and 16 heads.
I've also tried making a boot floppy, but the installation program
seems to hang when creating a filesystem on that floopy. I don't know
what is happening being new to this system, but I would appreciate any
advice or help you could give me.
Thanks,
Sean McIlwain
