> i used the potato 2.2.5 boot disks because of a problem of the boot-cd > within the debian 2.1 package with the initio-SCSI-host
If you only run into trouble when booting from CD, you should use the Debian 2.1 bootdisks. There is a tool on the first CD to create them (rawrite, AFAIR). Also have a look at the "libc6 <-> libc6-bin"-thread for further hints on that one. Tobias