Recently installed on a ThinkPad 570 with no CD...
I wound up using the "from a DOS partition" method. I had to do it this way because none of the four different resq images would boot. My machine just kept restarting. I guess my TP requires a zImage instead of a bzImage (b=big, i.e., over half a meg). I think this is called the "tecra" bug? The tecra and tecra-safe resq disks ought to have worked but they did not, even with floppy=thinkpad and a bunch of other boot parameters that I tried. But the DOS partition method worked just fine and I got slink installed okay. It did end up installing a kernel that again, would not boot! So I still had to use loadlin and boot from a zImage kernel on the DOS partition until I could compile my own >500k zImage kernel. Since then I've made 2.2.1 and 2.2.12 kernels that boot just fine. When 2.4 comes out I hope it still will be possible to make a kernel that is less than 500k. Good luck! Henry ------------ Previous Message from Vasanth Rakasi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 12/17/99 12:48:51 PM ---------- To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org cc: Subject: floppy/ftp install anybody? I'm planning to install Debian on an old IBM ThinkPad (75MHz Pentium, 540MB HD, 8 MB RAM) which does NOT have a CD-ROM drive. It has a floppy drive. I'm looking for any information that I can find on doing the install through floppy disks or ftp. I would appreciate it if you have (or someone who you know has) done this and are willing to share the experience (steps/install procedure, pitfalls that I should look out for, suggestions, etc). Thanks. vasanth PS: I'm apologize if this is a newbie question and has been answered a thousand times before. Please point me in that direction. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
