Dear debian-user's, If there is a specific install mailing list, please advise me ...
I have tried to install two different versions of Debian GNU/Linux, ver. 2.1 from the CD accompanying Bill McCarty's book, and the latest version, 2.2rev3, from a CD given to me by a friend. My system does not boot from CD-ROM, so I have created boot floppy images in both cases. My system is a Gateway P5-60, with AMIBIOS 1.00.03, 72 MB RAM, two 516 MB IDE HDs, Mitsumi 2x CD-ROM, and 3.5 and 5.25 inch floppy drives. In both cases the Rescue floppy is read following startup, and I receive the welcome screen and the boot prompt. After hitting <ENTER> to boot, the terminal shows: Loading linux ................................. Uncompressing linux......OK, booting the kernel then some stuff flys past, the last pageful is what is shown below, and the system hangs. Any advice on what it means and how to fix it is much appreciated. regards, Richard Baxter Code: <1> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000292 current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 = 00101000 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010: [<c010a653>] EFLAGS: 00010046 eax: 00000293 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 00000292 edx: 00000021 esi: 00098800 edi: c40ea000 ebp: c4800000 esp: c40e9ef4 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process swapper (pid: 1, process nr: 1, stackpage=240e9000) Stack: (twentyfour 8 digit Hex numbers) Call Trace: (sixteen 8 digit Hex numbers, enclosed by [< ... >]) Code: (twenty 2 digit Hex numbers)
