> I'm trying to install debian's stable linux distribution from floppies on > an old 486 machine. But it always stalls at the installation of the > kernel. I'm prompted to insert the Rescue disk, but the system doesn't > recognize it. I've tried many different disks from different machines, > but they all hang the same way at the same point. I can boot from all of > them fine to start > the installation, but they _all_ hang at the kernel installation step. > > I create the rescue disk using rawrite2.exe with this command: > rawrite2 -f resc1440.bin -d a: > > This is the 'Rescue Disk', right? From DOS I can list the files created, > among them: > > ldlinux.sys > linux > root.bin > debian.txt > syslinux.cfg > rdev.sh > install.sh > > Am I doing something wrong here? Is this not the Rescue Disk? If I'm > doing this right, any ideas about why I always hang at the same point? > > Here are some questions for down the road, assuming I can get past this > problem: > > My DOS partition is still my boot. How do I switch to Linux from DOS? Do > I always have to boot in with the rescue disk? > > Any suggestions on installing the packages when the only way I can get > files onto this thing is on floppies? I'll ftp them onto another machine > (WinNT); then do I rawrite2.exe each one onto floppies? Or can I just > WinZIP them across several ones, or gz/tar under NT, or what? I'm not > sure how I'll proceed here, so I have all these pre-newbie questions. My > goal is just to use the machine for lyx, so I guess I'll need Xwindow and > lyx, and not much more. > Is there a resource similar to the install.txt for what to do once Linux is up and running, that might answer these types of questions?
> Thanks for any help, > Rob Brendel
