On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 12:16:02AM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote:
> hey all,
> so i tried for the first time to pull up a system without any cdrom,
> just boot disks, and a locally mirrored debian distribution on FTP.
> i got three disks, resuce, boot, and drivers_1. rescue seems to be the
> only bootable one, and i get to a lilo prompt with options "linux",
> "floppy0", "restore", and "ramdisk0". however, all of these yield a
> "Boot failed: please change disks and press a key to continue," after
> which the boot sector is read again. i figure that from this point,
> the root disk is needed, but i could not, for the sake of anything,
> convince debian to boot off the disks from the various ftp sites. any
> hints?
You need root.bin, rescue.bin and 1 or more driver disks. If the disks
aren't being read the most likely two problems are a bad or dirty floppy
drive and or bad floppy disks. I assume your following the installation
instructions at the debian web-site.
hth,
kent
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