I have had this very same problem. I solved it by using the old Debian 1.1 boot/base disks. Then I pointed dselect to Debian 1.2. This worked well and was the only way (short of possibly creating a custom boot disk) that I found. I also had no problem installing Slackware on my Thinkpad...
HTH, Paul P.S. You should be able to find Debian 1.1 disks on one of the main Debian ftp machines (but I have forgotten which one). On 12-May-97 Jim Meyering wrote: >>First, thanks to all who have taken the time to reply. >I really appreciate all the help. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Hanson) writes: > | From: Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | Subject: failed installation of 1.2 on thinkpad. Tips? > | > | I am trying to install Debian/GNU/Linux 1.2 from floppy disks on > | a Thinkpad w/pentium. > | I have made the 6 disks as described in > | > | ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/stable/disks-i386/current/install.html > | > | I inserted rescue diskette and power cycled. > | I read through the on-line instructions and typed > | > | linux floppy=thinkpad > | > | and hit Enter. > | > | Then I got the loading root.bin..., then loading linux...... > | messages, but nothing more. It just hung -- I waited at > | least 15 minutes before giving up. > | > | Have I missed something obvious? > | > | I used these disks to install on a ThinkPad 760C about a month ago. > | They worked fine. > | > | 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 tried with the pre-1.3 rescue disk, with all combinations >of the options floppy=thinkpad and floppy=... to no avail. >I still haven't gotten past the `loading linux....' part. >Here's more info that I should have mentioned before: > > I'm using a thinkpad 760EL > there's an internal CD-ROM drive > the floppy drive is external > >I have not tried the floppyless installation because <blush> I don't >even know how to boot DOS on this system, and haven't found any >instructions for the floppyless install. Pointers welcome. > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
