OK, now it works. I worked with linux floppy=thinkpad. Thank you all for your help.
-Rainer Hahnekamp -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- Von: Osamu Aoki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Auftrag von Osamu Aoki Gesendet: Donnerstag, 12. Juli 2001 14:01 An: Rainer Hahnekamp Cc: Lukas Ruf; [email protected] Betreff: Re: problems with IBM Thinkpad I have Thinkpad 230Cs Intel 486 DX4 50MHz running Debian/potato happyly and I am writing this from it. First, I know this "floppy=thinkpad" in documentation but I never used it to install potato. Your Thinkpad must be a islightly newer one considering 50% faster CPU. So be open minded about this. Back to your question. Did you do following as first trial? ------------- At first "boot:", press enter while having RESCUE disk in floppy. Let system boot!! Then you will be asked to install "root floppy disk" and insert root floppy disk and press enter. ---------------- If it did not work, I guess you have to follow documentation. Please do following as 2nd trial. ---------------- boot: linux floppy=thinkpad ----------------- I think you forgot to type "linux". Boot parameter start as boot-method parameter=value As seen on F3-screen at boot. "parameter=value" is called argument. Rest shall be same as above. Good luck Linuxing.... :-) See my web page for some fun as novice Linuxer... On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 06:10:54PM +0200, Rainer Hahnekamp wrote: > Because this stands in the help file of the rescue disc. When I press > enter, the computer boots normally and orders then the disc with the > root image. Then he crashes with the error message: "Can't boot kernel > at 02:00". > > I want to install the Debian distribution on my IBM ThinkPad 486/75 > > MHz. At first I wanted to create a dual boot system with MS-DOS & > > Linux, but got some problems during the installation. Now I deleted > > all my partitions and booted from the Rescue disc, because I can > > only use floppy discs. As the help file says I pass the parameter > > floppy=thinkpad to the installation process, but after that I get > > the error message: "Could not find kernel image: floppy=t.hin". As > > disc image I used the one from > > http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/ > > images-1.44/rescue.bin Can somebody help me please? -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/ +
