paolo massei wrote:
Hmm, problem solved thanks.
I finally found some decent floppies (I must have tried about two sets
before), and made images of root.bin and rescue.bin. I then booted, and
waited past the messages "VM: do_try_to_free_ages failed for modprobe...
(and kswapd), and eventual
paolo massei wrote:
>> to edit the file, even if I specify
>>
>> mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>
> ^^
>
> Perhaps here is the error: try with
>
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> ^^
Thanks. 'msdos' turned out, *surprisingly* to be the correct option. It
still hasn't helped me g
In a galaxy not too far away, Chris Howells spoke on Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at
09:55:25AM +:
> I have just obtained the full three CD-ROM Debian CD-ROM set. I wish to
> try it out on my old computer first, which does not have a CD-ROM drive
> capable of booting.
>
> Therefore I must make a boot fl
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 09:55:25AM +, Chris Howells wrote:
...snip
> I asked on #debian about this, and was told that I needed to edit the
> file syslinux.cfg on one of the floppies, yet I am unsure how to do this
> (or why even -- all I want to do is start the installer from the
> CD-ROM?). T
I have just obtained the full three CD-ROM Debian CD-ROM set. I wish to
try it out on my old computer first, which does not have a CD-ROM drive
capable of booting.
Therefore I must make a boot floppy.
I used rawrite to create a floppy from the image install/rescue.bin,
which boots the machine up
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