After reading some email from today's debian-user digest, I think I found my problem. I am using CD-Rs from Cheapbytes and other people are complaining of exactly the same "missing rescue floppy" problem during setup.
chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 9:40 PM Subject: Problem installing Debian 2.2 from CD > I'm having trouble installing Debian 2.2 on a i386 with an IDE CD-ROM. I'm > installing from the CD, but Setup complains that it can't find the rescue > floppy. > > I boot from the CD and start Setup without problem. I can partition my HD > without problem. The problems begin during the "Install Operating System > Kernel and Modules'' step. I choose to install from the CD-ROM and Setup > asks me for the path to the "Debian archive". The default is /instmnt, where > Setup automatically mounted the CD. I verified that the CD is correctly > mounted from another virtual console while Setup is running. Setup asks me > for the path to the images-1.44/rescue.bin. I choose the default, which > seems to find the file at > /instmnt/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/rescue.bin. Then > Setup pops up an error message saying that it is unable to mount the rescue > floppy. At this point, Setup is hosed. I cannot continue because Setup > insists on finding a rescue floppy that does not exist. > > Why is Setup trying to find a rescue floppy on /dev/fd0 when I told it to > install from the mounted CD-ROM? How can I get around this broken Setup step > and install the operating system and kernel modules? > > thanks for your help! > chris > >
