At 12:25 PM 2/4/1999 -0800, you wrote: >Kent, > >Thanks for your responce. First off, I do have multiple floppies. So far the >Rescue disk is the one that is giving me problems. > >Secondly, I am following the instructions with the low memory install (I only >have 4 MB). First, you partion the hd to create a swap partion, a linux one, >and a root one. Once the swap partion is activated, it asks for the rescue >disk to copy the root file. This works fine. Then it boots up the linux >installer. A few steps later, it asks for the rescue disk again to install >the kernel. At this point, it won't recognize the rescue disk. > >Does that explain it better? Any suggestions? >SP
Yes, this helps. I've never done a low-memory install, so I'm probably not the best person to be talking to, so I'm CCing this to the list. The first thing that comes to mind is a bad floppy. Floppies are notorious for failing during the install of Debian. Make sure you have a really good quality floppy, and then if that fails, try another. I know of someone just yesterday (or maybe the day before, I forget) who had to go through 4 floppies before he got one that worked. Another possibility is that your Compaq laptop needs the Tecra set of boot/root disks instead of the normal set. You might investigate the documentation on running Linux on laptops (sorry I don't have the URL handy), or just try the Tecra diskettes. (BTW, the laptop documentation might have something specific to your Compaq laptop, so I'd investigate it in any case.) A third possibility is the low-mem issue; again, since I'm unfamiliar with that, you might want to include the debian list in any responses to this message. Hope this helps scoot you along a bit farther.
