Thanks for your response - however, I'd included "linux" (the name used on both floppies and CD). It must be my parameters which are incorrect. Booting from CD-ROM, the 3rd Hard Drive and with "boot.bat" and "linux" in the "install" directory what parameters should work? Today, I changed the CD-ROM drive from 'master' to 'slave' on the second IDE connector (having read somewhere that sometimes problems can arise if a CD-ROM is master and the only drive). I get nowhere, and yet RedHat and SuSE still install from the CD-ROM by merely hitting 'enter'. Regards, John.
on 12 May 99, Michael Beattie wrote... > >When you enter "parameters" you must also include the kernel name. such as >"linux" (I cant remember if that is the name used on the install floppies) > >so: > >LILO boot: linux [parameters] > > >On Tue, 11 May 1999, John wrote: > >> I have a spare machine onto which I am trying to install 2.0 r3. The machine has >> a >> Pentium MMX166 processor, two hard drives (one 426Mb with DOS 6.2 and W3.11: >> the other 1.1Gb empty and available for Linux), 32Mb FPM physical RAM, 1.44 >> Floppy, >> 32x CD-ROM Drive, an S3 Virge/DX(PCI) Video Card and an SB compat Sound Card >> the Monitor is SVGA. >> >> The Motherboard is TX/1 and the BIOS Award which supports CD-ROM booting, both >> Hard Drives are on the Primary and the CD-ROM is Master on the Secondary. >> >> I have little computer experience (although now reasonably knowledgeable with >> W95), >> am new to DOS and a complete newbie with Linux - also I'm old. I've turned to >> Linux >> for interest and to avoid these persistent 'blue screens' on the main machine. >> >> I possess two sets of distributions acquired with Samms introductory book and >> WGS >> Encyclopadia and can install RedHat and SuSE, but not Debian which may well be >> the distribution best suited to me. Both the InfoMagic and Linux Mall discs are >> of >> the same version and each gives identical results. >> >> Booting direct from the CD-Rom Drive loads Root.bin and Linux, but whatever I do >> at >> the boot prompt puts me into a continual rebooting cycle. I've tried all the >> parameters >> referred and alluded to in the help files and books. A straight <enter> goes to >> reboot >> (after some uncompressing too rapid to read). Adding parameters results in >> 'can't >> find kernel'. >> >> I've created floppies from files downloaded from ftp.debian (RSC1440.bin, >> DRV1440.bin, Base-1.bin to Base-5.bin and Root.bin). Booting with RSC1440.bin >> in the floppy drive puts me into the same automatic rebooting cycle and no >> parameters >> work - the 'can't find' message is displayed. I getthe chance to use only one >> disk. >> >> Can anyone, kindly, explain what I'm failing to comprehend or what I'm doing >> wrong. >> I would appreciate help (otherwise I may be stuck with Mr Gate's water >> torture!). >> Incidentally, to check if some machine fault has developed, I've again booted >> SuSE >> from the CD-ROM Drive and I got direct to the installation program. >> John. >> >> >> -- >> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >> >> > > > Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > PGP Key available, reply with "pgpkey" as subject. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > yip yip yip yip yip yip yap yap yip *BANG* NO TERRIER > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Debian GNU/Linux.... Ooohh You are missing out! > > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > >
