Hi, In my case, on one machine, I tried with boot diskette, the two cdroms(slink and potato), but in all cases, I got stuck with the same problem. So as of now, all options of installing debian (local + thru net) seems gone.
Suresh On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 08:02:37AM -0700, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: > I have experience similar problem but with red hat. We > found out that it was the CD and not the CD-drive. If > your going to install potato, I would suggest trying > the network based install with 2 floppies (if you have > a fast enough network connection). It is the easiest > and keeps the system uptodate with the latest. Or else > I would try burning another CD. > > Good luck. > > -Dinesh > > --- "Suresh Kumar.R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > When I try to boot from the debian slink or potato > > cd, the boot process > > apparently hangs with the following line: > > > > FDC 0 is a post - 1991 82077 > > md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 > > > > The interesting thing is , we are able to put Redhat > > linux into the same > > machine. We are trying to remove redhat to put > > debian. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Suresh > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Suresh Kumar.R Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Dept of Electronics & Communication > > College of Engineering, Trivandrum - 695 016 > > INDIA
