Hi All, I am trying to install the testing distribution on a PIII Sony Viao laptop. The laptop cd drive cannot be used to boot from (3rd party PCMCIA drive) and the floppy is a usb drive.
I am using the boot.img, root.img files from etch beta 2: http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer- i386/beta2/images/floppy/ The system bios is set to boot from the usb floppy and it boots the boot.img just fine. After coming up, the install prompts for the root.img. When I press enter at this point, there is an oops and the usb floppy cannot be found. I am guessing that the install is at this point using its own floppy driver and it expects a proper, non-usb, device. I installed stable on this laptop earlier, and did not have this problem. I believe there was an oops when accessing the root.img floppy, but it then proceeded to read it just fine from the usb drive. I know I can install stable and then upgrade to testing, but that has its own set of problems on this laptop. Is there a way around this? Thanks! -- Bob Smither, Ph.D. - Linux User 281-331-2744; fax:-4616 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================================= Unix IS user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ========================================================================= -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
