I have an rather! old IBM Thinkpad Model 720. It has MCA architecture and the disk is an ESDI disk, but no CDROM. Now I try to install Debian Slink. I have all diskettes available and the sytem boots OK. The PS/2 ESDI driver seems to initialize correctly and shows as last line: eda: eda1 eda2 eda3 I assume that eda1 is my old DOS, while eda2 and eda3 are the Linux ext2 and Linux Swap partitions (which I have created before). When the dbootstrap script gets control still eveything is fine: color, keyboard, network (which is n/a at this machine). However, the installation constantly refused to continue, because it can not find any disk in the system. When I shell-out and check /dev, I can not see any /dev/eda or /dev/eda1 devices. Are there devices missing? Which? How can I create them? Is is sufficient to do this an the ash shell and continue installation or has the root.bin to be changed? Am I right, if I assume that the resc1440.bin does not exactly fit to the root.bin in my sitution? What do I have to do? I have another system running where I can compile a kernel or something else, if this woulld help!
Best Regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen Roland Oberle
