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On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 11:33:29AM -0500, GARY P LARGESS wrote: > Then "VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press > ENTER" > > This is where I'm stuck. > I have not been able to figure out how to make the root FD. And believe > me I have spent many many many hours trying to figure it out on the > Debian main page. This is my last hope before giving up, and using RH. Do the same thing that you did to make the boot floppy, but use images-1.44/root.bin instead of images-1.44/rescue.bin. That's all there is to it. The documentation that you were looking for is in http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html under "5.4 Description of Installation System Files". Specifically, "5.4.2 Files for the Initial System Boot" has a list of all of the root images, with URLs no less. There is similar information in /dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/README.txt on your CD. > Can you tell me how to make a root FD, that is appropriate for this > machine and kernel- image-2.2.17_2.2.17pre6-1? And if I need another > floppy after the root... please tell me how to make that also. > > Or how to force the machine to boot from CD, or how to install Debain... > after booting in RH... or any other method that would allow me to install > Debian on this machine. Booting from a CD would be the easiest method, but some older machines are not capable of this at all. The stock floppies will almost certainly work, though. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
