Yesterday, I did my first debian install from the 27 Sep boot disks. That initial install and a session or two went fine. Last night, I was unable to reboot it from the boot floppy. I don't recall whether or not I had more than one successful boot on it.
This morning I reinstalled. Please bear with this narrative, as I'm not sure what might be relevent and what not. This is from memory, but I think it's accurate. Install went OK, except for some few suggested changes I'll deal with separately. "Expert mode", root on /dev/sda1. I have my swap on /dev/hda3 and don't recall where the install procedure detected that. I mistakenly rebooted without configuring the system, and the install procedures allowed me to do that. I used my boot disk made yesterday, and boot failed. I rebooted the boot+root disks, mounted /dev/sda1, made a boot disk (again neglecting to Configure, and I was allowed to do that). Same result. I booted my 0.93R5 partition, mounted /dev/sda1 on /mnt, and found that /mnt/etc/fstab didn't exist. Ah! No Configure! I rebooted the boot+root disks again, mounted /dev/sda1, did Configure, made another boot disk, and rebooted again. Boot failed. I rebooted the 0.93R5 system and mounted /dev/sda1 on /mnt again. /mnt/etc/fstab looks OK. "rdev /mnt/vmlinuz" says the boot device is /dev/sda1, OK. "cp /dev/fd0 x" and "rdev x" says that the root device for the image on the boot floppy is /dev/sda3. I partitioned /dev/sda with a single partition, and /dev/sda3 doesn't exist. "rdev x /dev/sda1" and "cp x /dev/fd0" produced a usable boot disk. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
