On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Preben Randhol wrote: > I'm now going to install debian on a third machine. So far everything > has gone nice, but the third machine is a bit troublesome. > > It is a COMPAC PRESARIO 5716. The problem is that this machine shows a > big red Q at startup and no BIOS info. I therefore do not know which > keys to press to access the BIOS in order to turn on CD-ROM booting. It > currently boots from floppy first before hard disc. > > So is it possible to make one or perhaps two floppy boot discs that > could boot it up and the switch to do the rest of the installation from > the CDs I have of Potato TC 2 ?
Take a look at: http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html There is a explanation about the methods of installing Debian. Do you have a win/dos partition? The way I like more is to install the base system from hard disk and the other packages from CD. If you don't have the dos partition, I think drv1440.bin and root.bin are the disks you need. []s, Marcio /*************************************************************************** * MARCIO ROSA DA SILVA e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Assistant Professor [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Electrical Engineering Department * Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos - UNISINOS * Av. Unisinos, 950 * Sao Leopoldo - RS - Brazil * Phone: +55 51 590-3333 R:1781/1782 * FAX: +55 51 590-8172 * http://www.eletrica.unisinos.br/~marcio ***************************************************************************/
