I have an old Pentium 75 mhz laptop from MidWest Micro and I am trying to load the latest stable version of Debian (V3.0r1).
There is no CD on the laptop, just a floppy and a PCMCIA Ethernet card (newly installed), so I want to start with the floppies and then download the rest over the net. The boot process starts OK. At the boot prompt, I press enter and then when I insert the 'root' floppy into the drive and press enter (upon request), it gives the message: RAMDISK: Compressed Image found at block 0 and that's it. The floppy continues to run for about 10 seconds and then is silent. I can scroll up to see the previous messages with shift+Page up, but no text can be entered on the screen. According to the manual the dbootstrap program should be automatically launched at this point, but nothing happens. I have tried to recreate the root disk on two other new disks with the same results. Using the boot argument, "ramdisk0" produces the same result, while using the boot argument "floppy0" produces the following output: RAMDISK: Compressed Image found at block 0 apm: BIOS version 1.1 Flags 0x03(Driver version 1.13) apm: disabled upon user request VFS: Mounted root(ext2 filesystem) read only. Freeing unused kernel memory: 152K freed VM: killing process modprobe kmod: failed exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k net -pf -1, errno 12 init started: BusyBox V0.60.3-pre(2002.01.21-22:50+0000) multi call binary VM: killing init VM: killing init After this, I also tried creating the rescue and root discs for the 'compact' flavor of the same release. The results are the same when simply pressing enter at the boot prompt, however, when I try floppy0 there is quite a lot of error messages, most of them with the form: VM: killing process init VM: Killing process udbootstrap Bummer couldn't start dbootstrap. Bad address and others like this. After 20 minutes, these messages are still being generated at a steady state. I don't think that there is anything fundamentally wrong with the pc and I was also able to install the base packages from an earlier release using only floppies some time ago(Potato I think). I haven't used the computer in years and don't have these old installation disks any more, so trying them is not really an option. Any ideas why I can't get dbootstrap to run? Let me know if more info is needed. Thanks Jon Medding [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
