>To whom may be able to assist me, > >I am new to Unix and have just downloaded the Debian version of Linux. The >disks work on my desktop PII 350, but I am having trouble on my laptop (i386 >20MHz with 8MB of RAM). The boot floppy starts, loads the kernel, but right >after it recognizes my 60MB hard drive the computer restarts with one line >of text I can't read before the screen changes. I've tried loading from >both the floppy and the dos partition install. I've even used the low >memory boot disk because there is only 2MB standard RAM and the other 6 are >in an expansion chip, if that makes a difference (it hasn't so far). Please >let me know if there's any parameters I need. The exact laptop is a Tandy >3820HD. Thank you very much, any assistance is appreciated. > >The World Emperor
Copy the rescue image on the binary cdrom to a floppy: assume your cdrom is mounted on /cdrom, dd if=/cdrom/install/resc1440.bin of=/dev/fd0 then boot up your laptop with this floppy, and you'll get a configuration shell. Make sure that the logical partition you created for linux /dev/hdx is bootable! HTH, Danny ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
