I had a similar problem with Debian 2.1 on an IBM PC 350 /w a 166 mhz processor. It had know special cards. I found that Debian 2.2 would work on it because it uses the 2.2 kernel and that particular computer has a bug which the 2.2 kernel recognised. Try downloading on your FreeBSD machine a boot floppy for Debian 2.2 and see if that solves the problem.
------------------------ John Kerr Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 ------------------------ On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, James Johnson wrote: > Greetings. > I just bought Debian 2.1, It won't load. It recognize everything up to my > two CDrom drives then It freezes up. I currently am running FreeBSD on a > seperate box. It will load on that box. The box that I'm putting it on > current has Win98 and Redhat. I was planning on going full blown Debian > Linux )no windows). But it keep freezing up during the booting process. > I unplugged everything, pulled all the pci cards, Memory, video card, and > swapped > stuff from the FreeBSD box nothing works! > The box I want Debian on: Athlon 500Mhz, FIC SD11 Motherboard, 128 megs ram, > 10gig harddrive, Geforce video card, CDRW, CDrom, floppy > The box my FreeBSD is on: Dual PII 266Mhz, 4gig harddrive, 32 megs ram, two > plain CDrom, ISA 512K Video card (It will install on this box, But I want > FreeBSD to stay on it. > I was thinking of install it on My freebsd box then swapping harddrives. > James > >
