I have just obtained the full three CD-ROM Debian CD-ROM set. I wish to try it out on my old computer first, which does not have a CD-ROM drive capable of booting.
Therefore I must make a boot floppy. I used rawrite to create a floppy from the image install/rescue.bin, which boots the machine up with syslinux, and then asks for "Insert root floppy disk to be loaded...". So, I made a floppy with the image of install/root.bin. When I take the first (rescue.bin) floppy out, and put this one (root.bin) instead I get a 'Kernel Panic: "Unable to mount root fs "' I asked on #debian about this, and was told that I needed to edit the file syslinux.cfg on one of the floppies, yet I am unsure how to do this (or why even -- all I want to do is start the installer from the CD-ROM?). They won't mount under Linux Mandrake (on my other machine), to edit the file, even if I specify mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy I'd be really grateful if somebody could help. I do have a fair amount of Linux experience (with mainly Red Hat style distros -- where it's just a matter of writing installer.img or similair, and making sure the CD-ROM is in the drive), but this has got me stumped. -- Chris Howells E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 93699029 Web: http://www.linuxfan.com/~chowells
