On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 07:03:46PM +0100, Tim Larson wrote: > Having trouble installing debian (woody). Root floppy reboots > immediately, no text printed. Dell OptiPlex GX1 Bios A10 > Anybody have a similar experience, ideas how to debug this, > or solutions? I am using the "normal" root.bin written to > disk with NTRawrite.exe 1.0.1, no errors reported during > writing. > > --Tim Larson
I gave up on booting from the debian woody boot floppy, and instead booted from a redhat as 3.0 rescue cd, formatted the drive, expanded root.bin, loopback mounted it, snagged "ar" and libbfd from another machine and unpacked debootstrap.deb into the expanded floppy image, and ran debootstrap manually for a successfull install. Btw, the machine now boots with grub happilly from either a floppy or from the hard drive. --Tim Larson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
