Re: bootdisk for jigdo cdrom

2002-06-23 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Francois Chenais wrote on Fri Jun 21, 2002 um 02:34:12PM: > Hello, > > I have a jigdo cdrom but the computer I use doesn't want to boot > on it :-| > > So, which boot disk must I uses to boot bf2.4 woody dist ? The two disks calles rescue.bin and root.bin, located in

Re: bootdisk

1999-12-14 Thread Fitsch
Arne wrote: > > Can someone point me to the bootdisk-image from the debian ftp-site. > Thanks, > Arne > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null go to http://www.debian.org/misc/README.mirrors and chose a mirror site. On that site go to the directory /debian/dists

Re: Bootdisk for ThinkPad

1999-12-10 Thread Dale Scheetz
On 9 Dec 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > Dale, can you try just booting with the rescue disk at > ? > > Let me know if this doesn't work... Works just fine! Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_- Author of "The Debian Linux User's Guide" _-_-_-_-_

Re: Bootdisk for ThinkPad

1999-12-09 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Gunnar Evermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've made the same experience with a TP 365XD. Can you try booting from the set at please? -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: Bootdisk for ThinkPad

1999-12-09 Thread Gunnar Evermann
Heikki Vatiainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Can someone point me to a rescue disk for the ThinkPad? I can > > install Red Hat 6.1 and Caldera 2.3, but not Debian! > > Try the tecra disks, resc1440tecra.bin and resc1440tecra-safe.bin. I > am using a ThinkPad 770Z, and I had to use the tecra r

Re: Bootdisk for ThinkPad

1999-12-09 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Dale, can you try just booting with the rescue disk at ? Let me know if this doesn't work... -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: Bootdisk for ThinkPad

1999-12-09 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Heikki Vatiainen wrote: > > Can someone point me to a rescue disk for the ThinkPad? I can install Red > > Hat 6.1 and Caldera 2.3, but not Debian! > > Try the tecra disks, resc1440tecra.bin and resc1440tecra-safe.bin. > I am using a ThinkPad 770Z, and I had to use the tecra r

Re: Bootdisk for ThinkPad

1999-12-09 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
> Can someone point me to a rescue disk for the ThinkPad? I can install Red > Hat 6.1 and Caldera 2.3, but not Debian! Try the tecra disks, resc1440tecra.bin and resc1440tecra-safe.bin. I am using a ThinkPad 770Z, and I had to use the tecra rescue disk to get it up and running. > Dwarf // Heik

Re: bootdisk problem

1999-11-22 Thread Marc Mongeon
> I was booting off the bootdisk and when the initial message and the boot: > prompt comes up, I hit enter, and it loads the root.bin, prints 4 periods, > and then hangs, like this: > >loading root.bin > > I tried all the boot images, resc-1440, resc-1440-safe, resc-1440-tecra, > resc-1440-

Re: bootdisk for bi celeron bp6 ata 66 controller.

1999-10-29 Thread aphro
the ata66 controller is only supported by a 3rd party kernel patch. some people say it works, others say it doesn't .. i have a BP6 myself, the thing is unstable as hell in SMP (fine in UP), but i use SCSI only no IDE. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]--

Re: Bootdisk / syslinux Problems

1999-02-18 Thread James D. Brenton
Hi I have had the same problems as Hans-Peter (see below). I am trying to install Debian 2.0 on an old Dell 466/Le with 24Mb of main memory and a 1.7Gb disk. However the boot image fails on loading root.bin (or initrd.img on other systems). One period is emmitted and then the system hangs or th

Re: Bootdisk problem

1998-07-09 Thread alexander e dukat
I used Taper. I am also using an Iomega 2GB tape drive and so I need to have the newest modules for ftape and zftape. Alex On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Why can't you just use the regular stock rescue disk? What did you use to > back up your > system, dump? tar? cpio? > > al

Re: Bootdisk for PCMCIA?

1997-12-24 Thread Stephen Ryan
Lukas Eppler wrote: > > Hi, > > Is there a boot floppy set which supports installation over a pcmcia > network card? > > If not, how is the simplest way to do it? Not that I know of. I've recently installed Debian on 3 laptops, mostly by stumbling around in the dark until something worked. My

Re: bootdisk/lilo/ramdisk

1997-07-29 Thread Bruce Perens
Install the "boot-floppies" package and modify the script that creates the rescue disk to add the facilities you need. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL