On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 07:10:24PM -0400, Margarete Hans wrote: > I assume that no one responded to my original message because it was > in rich text format so here it is again - hopefully in plain text this > time.
Also, your post is hard as hell to read. Too much information clumped together. White space is your (and our) friend. > I tried installing Debian Potato, vanilla flavor, with floppies on a > COMPAQ laptop, Contura 400C. It has 20480 KB RAM, of wich 4 MB are on > the System Board and 16 MB are part of an Expansion Module, an SL > enhanced 486DX2 processor at 40 MHz, an integrated 387-Compatible > coprocessor; I have a primary DOS FAT-16 partition (410MB), a primary > Linux partition (50MB)(unformatted) and and expanded partition with > two other unformatted Linux partitions(70MB and 210MB). The partitions > were made with Partition Manager, a very basic DOS-utility. I > downloaded the disk images with DownloadAccelerator. > Upon inserting the rescue disk and rebooting, it checked the RAM, > accessessed the floppy and then simply stopped. The curser was on the > top row, blinking. I retried it a couple of times, rawriting it on > different floppies each time. > I then tried it on my primary computer (DELL Pentium 166, 32MB RAM, > AMIBIOS version A10 by Americanmegatrends, one 3GB FAT-32 Win95 > partition). The same thing happened. > I assumed that the problem was that the file was corrupted. > I redownloaded the disk image. This time, on both computers, I got a > message that the floppy is "not a bootable disk". > I redownloaded it a third time from a different server, with the same > result as the second on both computers. > I tried the Compact flavor. The rescue disk worked fine on both > computers, but upon inserting the root image disk, I got a message > "invalid compressed format (err=1)<5>VFS: insert root floppy and press > ENTER". > Upon hitting enter, without changing disk, there is some obscure code > repeated twice and then a "Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs > on 2:00 > ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=0x80, count=1". > I tried downloading the compact root twice, rawrote it onto different > disks and tried it on both computers with the same results. > I have no new ideas of what to try next. What should I do? > > Derek > > > > -- Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
