In a galaxy not too far away, Chris Howells spoke on Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 09:55:25AM +0000: > 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. i hope you created it with dd/rawrite and did not just copy root.bin on it... > > 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 can't imagine that this is really necessary. have you tried different floppies ? - they are an extremely unreliable medium... maybe you should even try to d/l the image again - there could have been some error during downloading it.
of course you can't mount these floppys as ext2 (or any other fs) - they just contain an image (or, in the case of root.bin, a compressed image) of a filesystem. if you have the loop-device compiled in your kernel, you can mount the images in the following way: mount -o loop rescue.bin /mnt or mv root.bin root.bin.gz;gunzip root.bin.gz;mount -o loop root.bin /mnt btw, syslinux.cfg is in rescue.bin ... hope that helps, /stefan. > 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 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
