Generally if you have a CD, IIRC you need a root disk and a rescue disk. Boot from the rescue disk, swap to the root disk when asked, and voila, you're installing.
HTH, Brooks > -----Original Message----- > From: Visvanath Ratnaweera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, 25 August, 2001 07:07 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: CD not bootable > > > Hi all > > This must be a pretty standard question but I couldn'f find what I need. > > I have the Debian 2.2 (Potato) CD's which were the source of quite a few > installation. In all those I could boot from the CD. > > The present candidate, a Toshiba Satellite Laptop with Pentium 266 MMX, > refuses to boot from the CD. I made a rescue floppy from DOS > usring rawrite2 > which boots fine. > > This is the quesiton: How do I install by making a minimum number > of floppies? > > Ideally this rescue CD should be suffiecient. The kernel in the > rescue floppy > recognizes the CD. Can I give something like "linux root=...." so > that the CD > will take control? > > Cheers > Visvanath. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
