Hi all, Tried to do an installation of Debian 2.1 (slink) on my Toshiba Portege 3015CT laptop this evening, and failed miserably.
First I downloaded the standard installation floppies and tried to install from floppy, since the CD-ROM is on a PCMCIA-IDE controller and I figured it might not be best to try to get it working to do the installation. Of course, I didn't make it that far, so it still may have worked that way also. (Yes, I realize that floppies are bad regularly when doing this. Been there, done that... In all steps listed below, I remade the floppies in another machine, after reformatting, just to check.) During install of the first diskette, the system always rebooted at the end of loading the kernel image. Thinking that maybe I had the infamous bzImage problem on this newer laptop, I attempted both the "safe" diskette and the "tecra-safe" diskette. Those also exhibited this behavior. I also attempted removing all PCMCIA devices completely from the system while booting, disabling the sound hardware in the BIOS, and changing the memory location needed by the Neomagic video chipset in the BIOS. None of these changes helped. Anyone else have any other ideas? I already have two Debian systems up and running, and badly needed Linux on the laptop, so it's currently in the process of an overnight Internet installation of RH 6.0, just to get it done, but I'd prefer to use Debian on the system if I can get it working. Thanks, feel free to CC: me or just reply to the list. Unlike many who show up only for the once-in-a-while question, I read it all the time and try to learn from the things others are going through. As always, if I missed R'ing and FM, as some have put it, please point me in the right direction. I'll make sure to post info about this stuff somewhere... p.s. For the *one* person who replied to my HP OfficeJet 600 question, THANK YOU... I think it's going to work, and I kept your e-mail address when you CC'ed me to thank you personally once it's up and running! +-----------------------------------+--------------------------------+ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Support Amateur Radio & Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | | "May the Source be with you." | +-----------------------------------+--------------------------------+ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | | http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
