In an article I wrote: >I'm trying to install debian on a laptop system. I partitioned the >lone 500MB hard drive and installed Win95 and that's up and >running. Now I have a 20MB partition for swap and a 200MB partition >for linux. I pop in the rescue diskette and it boots fine, the >installation procedure sets up the partitions (swap and ext2) without >a hitch, but now, I'm at the "Install Operating System Kernel and >Modules". It asks me to select the install medium, which is /dev/fd0 >(the only floppy drive). The procedure then prompts me to insert the >Rescue diskette, which is already in the drive, and then it gives me >the following error: > >Installing from rescue floppy ... >./install.sh: Can't open ./install.sh > >The attempt to extract the rescue floppy failed. > >Needless to say, nothing is installed and when I get back to the >installation menu it wants to try the same thing over, and it >continually fails with the same error. [article truncated]
I think I solved this problem. Well, I really solved it by installing from a Win95 partition, but, I believe the problem is with the Thinkpad floppy. After getting Debian installed I noticed I couldn't access my floppy drive. I dug around on the Web and in the source code and found that you need to add the "floppy=thinkpad" to the boot parameter (append="floppy=thinkpad" in the LILO configuration file). This likely would've solved my problem with the installation too. Gary Hennigan -------------------------------------------- Contract Employee, Sandia National Labs Parallel Computational Sciences; Div. 9221 Albuquerque, NM email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (505)845-7558 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
