Hi, On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 09:17:40PM -0600, Jeff Conder wrote: > Hi - I have not been able to get past the rescue disk install.
Which version potato/woody stable/testing? I assume potato ;-) > I've read and searched through the documents and haven't > found anything that relates to what I perceive is the problem. > > Any help on this would be appreciated: > > My system is - 900MHz Athelon, 128M RAM, 60G IDE Hard > drive, Adaptec SCSI PCI adapter, HP 10/100 Fast Ethernet > PCI card, USB keyboard & mouse. Nice. I just installed potato to 486DX4 50MHz. (Here) > I downloaded the i386 rescue binary for compact install > and for basic install, same problems. Used rawrite2 to > make a floppy. The floppy works fine, get the boot: prompt. How about root and driver-? disks? > I have tried normal boot (return), linux mem=128m, and > linux mem=128m kbd-reset That"s good but ... (W/o them can still boot with 64MB) > My symptoms are - No major error messages, but can't > stop the scroll. ATA keboard is not found during the > process. I get to a prompt asking for the root disk > to be inserted, then I'm suppose to press the ENTER > key. Only after you enter root disk into /dev/fd0 > But, my keyboard does not seem to work. I can't > get past this point. > See official install guide: http://www.debian.org/doc/admin-manuals Also this is helpful. http://www.debian.org/doc/ddp Also peek-into my experiences in my web page... Good luck ;-) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/ +
