On Sat, 10 May 1997, Chris Hanson wrote: > The most likely answer to your problem is that you should not use > "floppy=thinkpad"; I didn't use it on the 760C. Modern ThinkPads do > not need that switch, only older ones, such as the trusty 755C I'm > using right now.
I concur. I loaded Debian 1.2 on my father's thinkpad 560 some months ago. I did not use the floppy=thinkpad switch, but the 1.2 rescue floppy still did not work properly (the machine would say loading linux.... and then reboot). This same behavior occurred on some Toshiba laptops, and it was traced to the fact that the kernel image is a bzImage instead of a zImage on the newer rescue floppies. I used the 1.1 install disks. However, I strongly recommend that you try the floppyless installation instructions if you have a DOS partition to which you can copy the needed files. Thanks. Syrus. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> UCSD Physics Dept. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
