I had the same problem with my old laptop. Try booting from the msdos partition (if you still have it). Here is the info on how to do it: http://www.debian.org/releases/2.2/i386/install section 6.3.1 Basically, put loadlin.exe, linux (linux kernel), root.bin on c:\, then reboot, hit F8 as soon as msdos starts to stop it from opening any other programs, run loadlin linux root=/dev/ram initrd=root.bin I had lots of problems getting all the files in a non-corrupted state to the laptop, as I had to do everything with floppies, winzip and multidiskspanning. If something doesn't work, try redownloading and using a new disk to transfer.
----- Original Message ----- From: Matt Gerginski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <> Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2001 9:30 PM Subject: debian on a 486 > Hi. I want to put debian on a 486 that I recently got from my school. > They were giving away "obsolete" computers, so I grabbed 5 of them. I > just have one small problem: I can't get any of the rescue.bin disks to > boot on the computer. It boots fine in my newer computer, so its not > the disk. To get around that, I used an old slackware bootdisk, and > then loaded the debian root installation disk. It worked great for > everything except for the network configuration and some kernel > modules. I tried to do the neccasary repairs myself, but it seems the > only way to get this thing working right is to use the debian boot > disk. I need to find a boot disk that works, compile a kernel of my own > for the boot disk, or find an older debian boot disk and hope it works > with the machine and still works with the debian installation process. > Any suggestions or help??? Thanks a ton. > > --mattgerg > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
