> I'm having trouble installing debian on my system. It's an IBM PS/1, > 486sx33 w/ 8mb ram, and a 1.2gb quantum fireball hard drive, with 5 > partitions. I put the rescue disk in my floppy drive, reboot, and press > enter at the "boot:" prompt. There is some disk activity for a few > seconds, and then the system freezes (the floppy drive light stays on, but > there is no activity). I've tried several things to fix this problem, such > as using different disks with the resc1440.bin disk image, all of them > surface scanned before rawriting, using the resc1440-safe, resc1440-tecra, > resc1440-safe-tecra disk images, and booting by typing linux > floppy=thinkpad. Is there any other way that I can get linux to boot from > my floppy drive? If not, would installing off of my HD's 5th partition, > reformatting partitions 1-4, and then reformatting partition 5 once linux > is up and running cause problems? DOS and OnTrack are on the 1st > partition, and win95 is on the 2nd. >
You might want to look at Installing Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/install.en.txt For example, it has a section on (5.3.1) Installing from a DOS partition.
