Hi I have had the same problems as Hans-Peter (see below).
I am trying to install Debian 2.0 on an old Dell 466/Le with 24Mb of main memory and a 1.7Gb disk. However the boot image fails on loading root.bin (or initrd.img on other systems). One period is emmitted and then the system hangs or the screen blanks and a dos reboot occurs. On one occasion a few characters on the screen became corrupted. I have tried the -safe and -tecra-safe images but they do not solve the problem. The boot images for Redhat 5.1/5.2 and Suse 6.0 cause similar symptoms. The Redhat 5.0 image works fine and the installed os works without problems. Can anyone suggest a fix? James. >Hi, > >I recently got an old Dell 486 PC. I tried to install Debian 2.0 on it, >but booting with a disk which is using syslinux is not working. I tried >bootdisks from other distributions to make shure, that it's syslinux - >same results. Booting from a RedHat 5.0 bootdisk, this one is not using >syslinux, worked fine. The boot process always stops after a few seconds: >loading xxx .... Has anybody seen this before ? What can I do ? Booting >from CD-ROM is no option, because the PC has no CD :-) I tried to change >the hardware, no change. > >Thanks for your help. > >Hans-Peter
