the install that never was

1998-03-28 Thread Wolf Logan
Well, I just tried booting with a RedHat boot floppy. It reboots before it's done, too. I also tried a FreeBSD floppy (I really want *some* kind of Unix-alike running here!), and while it booted and ran fine with no trouble, it couldn't recognize my serial ports. So...what would y'all say my optio

Re: desperately seeking installation

1998-03-26 Thread Wolf Logan
Just a quick clarification: the logs excerpted below are not from my machine. If Linux was running on my machine well enough to generate a logfile, I'd be a happy camper - regardless of the BogoMIPS! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, March 25,

Re: desperately seeking installation

1998-03-25 Thread Wolf Logan
Well, this is the first time I've heard of anyone else reproducing this kind of problem. I feel *much* better knowing it's not just me. I've tried booting from the Tecra diskimage (I believe they're -zimage) and it *still* doesn't work. The disk images report that they're built off of 2.0.29, thou

desperately seeking installation

1998-03-25 Thread Wolf Logan
I appreciate the support, folks. The motherboard in question is an EFA P5TX v1.30 with an AMD K6/200. Through long practice and much patience, I was able to see the word "Calibrating" on the display before it reboots, so if there's a stage during boot where it calibrates something, it's getting t

install troubles continue

1998-03-24 Thread Wolf Logan
Me again. I've now stripped all the equipment out of the machine, except the Diamond 3D 3000, and reset all the CMOS options to their absolute most conservative. I've also tried rewriting the boot floppy, and using other floppies. It still reboots while trying to start up off the Rescue disk. Fo

Install troubles

1998-03-24 Thread Wolf Logan
Howdy! I'm trying to install Debian 1.3.1 onto my no-name system. I wrote a CD with the standard distribution CD image, and wrote a Rescue disk to install with. When I boot my system with the Rescue disk, it runs the loader, loads and decompresses linux, and begins the boot process. However, at som