Oops. Looks like you found a solution. Nate
On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 03:39:22PM -0300, Pablo Lorenzzoni wrote: > Hello! > > I posted a message yesterday asking for advice on installing Woody in a > Toshiba Port?g? 3010CT. I was getting "Kernel panic: VFS Unable to mount root > fs on 01:00". I solved it and I am posting the solution for future reference. > > Well... It was actually a mistake I made myself. I was trying to boot with > LOADLIN.EXE without stripping HIMEM.SYS off the RAM. All I needed to do was > to boot (argh!) Windows with no drivers at all. > > After I did this, everything went on fine, except that, for some unknown > reason, the boot-floppies weren't able to configure my network (I use a > PCMCIA PCIC compatible slot with i82365 driver and a 3Com EtherLink III 589 > card with 3c589_cs driver). I just opened another console, configured it with > ifconfig and route and that's it. I had no problems with the instalation > through the network. > > Thanks, > > Pablo > > P.S.: Just for reference, from Debian 3.0 CD I copied these files from > dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/ to the Windows partition: > dosutils/loadlin.exe > images-1.44/rescue.bin > images-1.44/root.bin > drivers.tgz > install.bat > linux.bin > -- > Pablo Lorenzzoni (Spectra) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > GnuPG Key ID 268A084D at search.keyserver.net > Webpage: http://people.debian.org/~spectra/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
