On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 11:33:07PM +0100, Christian Ericsson wrote: > Hello Nathan, > > It worked! The Debian installer started as you said it would do. But, when > it comes to the section: "Install Operating System Kernel and Modules", the > dbootstrap is unable to mount the Rescue Floppy. > The error message I get is: > > Mount /dev/loop0 (type ext2) on /floppy: wrong filesystem type, or bad > superblock on/dev/loop0 > Unable to mount the Rescue Floppy. > > It seems like the dbootstrap program assume that the Rescue Floppy has an > ext2 filesystem. I tried to mount the resc1440.bin file with: > > mount -o loop resc1440.bin /instmnt > > and, the Rescue Floppy was mounted as msdos filesystem. Is this correct? > However, to go on with the installation I will try to convert the Rescue > Floppy to ext2 filesystem, as dbootstrap wants to have it that way. Has > anyone any better idea? > > BTW, it's a Power Macintosh 8600/250.
Corrected ext2 resc1440.bin at http://www.debian.org/~porter -- Matt Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.
