When you boot from the floppy disk, why do you wanna pass the option floppy=thinkpad ? Press simply enter -- what happens then?
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Rainer Hahnekamp wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I want to install the Debian distribution on my IBM ThinkPad 486/75 MHz. At > first I wanted to create a dual boot system with MS-DOS & Linux, but got > some problems during the installation. Now I deleted all my partitions and > booted from the Rescue disc, because I can only use floppy discs. As the > help file says I pass the parameter floppy=thinkpad to the installation > process, but after that I get the error message: "Could not find kernel > image: floppy=t.hin". > As disc image I used the one from > http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/ > images-1.44/rescue.bin > Can somebody help me please? > > -Rainer Hahnekamp > > P.S.: This is the third time I post this message, but I could not find it in > your newsgroup If the reason is a problem with my newsreader program I > apologize in advance for posting so often. > Probably because there is a FAQ ? --lpr
