Re: Odd install from floppy problem

2005-09-25 Thread Carlos Correia
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alvin Oga wrote: | | On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Carlos Correia wrote: | | |>-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- |>Hash: SHA1 |> |>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |>| Rewrite the root.img disk and be sure to format the disk properly before |>| writing it. |>| |> |>I

Re: Odd install from floppy problem

2005-09-25 Thread Joey Hess
Carlos Correia wrote: > Everything goes fine during the loadins of the boot.img floppy but, > after inserting the root.img disk, the screen slowly begins to turn > white... and nothing more happens :-( I assume this is after it's read data from the floppy or something. Your description of the prob

Re: Odd install from floppy problem

2005-09-25 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Carlos Correia wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > | Rewrite the root.img disk and be sure to format the disk properly before > | writing it. > | > > I've done that several times before I wrote the previous e-mail and > d

Re: Odd install from floppy problem

2005-09-25 Thread Carlos Correia
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Rewrite the root.img disk and be sure to format the disk properly before | writing it. | I've done that several times before I wrote the previous e-mail and didn't help... Thanks anyway, Carlos - -- MEMÓRIA PERSISTENTE,

Re: Odd install from floppy problem

2005-09-25 Thread debian
Rewrite the root.img disk and be sure to format the disk properly before writing it. On 9/25/2005, "Carlos Correia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >Hi, > >I'm trying to install Sarge in a Uniwill laptop (chipset SiS 630) which >has no CD-ROM, so I bur

Odd install from floppy problem

2005-09-25 Thread Carlos Correia
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm trying to install Sarge in a Uniwill laptop (chipset SiS 630) which has no CD-ROM, so I burn the install floppies to try to install from the network. Everything goes fine during the loadins of the boot.img floppy but, after inserting the roo

Re: Sarge Install | From floppy & DVD | Not finding hard drive or wireless (RESOLVED)

2005-07-03 Thread Adam Majer
David Hart wrote: Hi, Installing for the first time. I have Sarge on DVD, but my machine won't boot from them so using floppys. Using the boot.img, root.img and cd-drivers.img from the 1st DVD. Solution - The BIOS only looked at the first IDE device for boot - disabled the CD and worke

Re: Sarge Install | From floppy & DVD | Not finding hard drive or wireless (RESOLVED)

2005-07-02 Thread David Hart
> >Hi, > > > >Installing for the first time. I have Sarge on DVD, but my machine > >won't boot from them so > >using floppys. Using the boot.img, root.img and cd-drivers.img from the 1st > >DVD. Solution - The BIOS only looked at the first IDE device for boot - disabled the CD and worked a lot be

Re: Sarge Install | From floppy & DVD | Not finding hard drive or wireless

2005-07-01 Thread Adam Majer
David Hart wrote: >Hi, > >Installing for the first time. I have Sarge on DVD, but my machine >won't boot from them so >using floppys. Using the boot.img, root.img and cd-drivers.img from the 1st >DVD. > >Problem 1 - Does not detect my Belkin 802.11g PCI card (F5D7000). >I will leave this until af

Sarge Install | From floppy & DVD | Not finding hard drive or wireless

2005-07-01 Thread David Hart
Hi, Installing for the first time. I have Sarge on DVD, but my machine won't boot from them so using floppys. Using the boot.img, root.img and cd-drivers.img from the 1st DVD. Problem 1 - Does not detect my Belkin 802.11g PCI card (F5D7000). I will leave this until after install to fix, but it me

Re: install from floppy

1996-09-26 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Kenneth Johansson wrote: > I have downloaded debian from Debian.1.1.8 directory and installed > the base system. I got so far as to run the dselect program and > stoped there as i had not downloaded more files. > > Now the problem is that I dont understand how dselect works

install from floppy

1996-09-26 Thread Kenneth Johansson
I have downloaded debian from Debian.1.1.8 directory and installed the base system. I got so far as to run the dselect program and stoped there as i had not downloaded more files. Now the problem is that I dont understand how dselect works. I thought that it should indicate what i have installe