Installation Problems

I assume that no one responded to my original message because it was in rich text format so here it is again - hopefully in plain text this time. I tried installing Debian Potato, vanilla flavor, with floppies on a COMPAQ laptop, Contura 400C. It has 20480 KB RAM, of wich 4 MB are on the System Boa

Re: Installation Problems

>> two other unformatted Linux partitions(70MB and 210MB). The partitions >> were made with Partition Manager, a very basic DOS-utility. >Why? If you are doing a vanilla install, creating partitions are part of >the install .

Re: Installation Problems

> Hi, > > Your hard disk is IDE? DO you know the name and make. Hard Drive Type 65 (813MB) (?). It is IDE. > But in your case I suspect the problem with the floppy > disk. Try to use the best disk when you run rawwrite > > or check the badblock fisrt. How do I check that? > > TO make sure your comp

Installation Problems

H. I think I made some progress. Usually, my filesystem wouldn't mount. This time, using loadlin linux root=/dev/ram initrd=root.bin disksize=1.44 (linux is my linux kernel) (all the files are on c:\, a dos partition) the kernel booted fine but then ended with " Partition check: hda: hda1 hd

Re: Installation Problems

Wow! That is a great doc for installing debian! There doesn't seem to be an update for the BIOS (http://www.compaq.com/support/files/notebooks/us/locate/1_878.html). The kernel boots well from the harddrive - it is the filesystem mounting that doesn't work. I tried putting root on /dev/fd0 as you

How do I pass init= to the kernel?

When trying to install Debian from a DOS partition, using loadlin, the kernel booted, but then I got the following message: Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 hda7 > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block invalid compressed format (err=2)<6>apm: BIOS version 1.1 Flags 0x03 (Driver

Re: information request

Here is another file, describing the isntallation process very well: http://www.debian.org/releases/2.2/i386/install I don't understand why this document is not displayed in a clearer manner and at a more accessible place than it is currently. It took me 2 or 3 days of combing over debian.org to fi

Re: How do I pass init= to the kernel?

oot fs on 03:02 Seems somewhat weird - I don't know what to do anymore. > c ya > alvin > > On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Margarete Hans wrote: > > > > > - Original Message - > > From: Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Margarete Hans <[EMAIL

Re: How do I pass init= to the kernel?

I pass init= to the kernel? > On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 11:34:56PM -0400, Margarete Hans wrote: > > When trying to install Debian from a DOS partition, using loadlin, the > > kernel booted, but then I got the following message: > > > > Partition check: > > hda: h

Re: How do I pass init= to the kernel?

- Original Message - From: Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Margarete Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <>; <> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 8:49 PM Subject: Re: How do I pass init= to the kernel? > > hi ya > > you probably want: > > boot: linux i

Re: How do I pass init= to the kernel?

at 10:24:56PM -0400, Margarete Hans wrote: > > :If you wonder why I don't use a rescue disk to boot: > :I get a message that the disk is not bootable. > :I tried redownloading the rescue disk files, tried more than 5 > :different floppies, same message. > :When I tried the comp

Xfree86 a.out installation question

I want to install Xfree86 4.1.0 on my laptop. I tried running the Xinstall.sh with the -check option to find out witch version I need. Here is the output: " Checking what OS you're running... uname reports 'Linux' version '2.2.19pre17', architecture 'i486'. Xinstall.sh: file: command not found Obje

gnome/KDE

What are the advantages/disadvantages of gnome and KDE? Basically, which one should I install?

Re: debian on a 486

I had the same problem with my old laptop. Try booting from the msdos partition (if you still have it). Here is the info on how to do it: http://www.debian.org/releases/2.2/i386/install section 6.3.1 Basically, put loadlin.exe, linux (linux kernel), root.bin on c:\, then reboot, hit F8 as soon as m

Re: Best WM for slow machine?

Woops... I was just planning on installing KDE on my old computer (486, 40kHz CPU). I guess I'll try something else if there are already problems running it on a 166... > > uwm ('ultimate window manager') is very interesting. not much to look at, > but really really neat and different. > > did i

Re: KDE on a slow machine (was: Best WM for slow machine?)

s ( ). Does gnome use as much memory as KDE? Besides, what does KDE give you more than these smaller WMs? > On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Margarete Hans wrote: > > > Woops... I was just planning on installing KDE on my old computer > > (486, 40kHz CPU). I guess I'll try something else

unexpected interrupt

When running linux, every few minutes a message pops up saying ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=0x80, count=1 the count being incremented each time. It ins't actually doing anything (bad) from what I see, it's just bothersome. What is it and how can I stop it from happening?