On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 13:40, Jon Medding wrote: > I have an old Pentium 75 mhz laptop from MidWest Micro and I am trying to > load the latest stable version of Debian (V3.0r1).
> The boot process starts OK. At the boot prompt, I press enter and then when > I insert the 'root' floppy into the drive and press enter (upon request), it > gives the message: > > RAMDISK: Compressed Image found at block 0 > > and that's it. Three things come to mind. How much RAM do you have, actually? I don't know the exact amount required, but 8Mb will be too little. Next possible cause would be bad floppies, but you seem to be aware of that issue. Anyway, I'd expect a read error to be reported in that case. Third, some other hardware glitch. Esp with a laptop this might well be possible. At the time the 'rescue' floppy shows you the boot prompt, you may call several screens of help by pressing the F2-F10 keys, like information about much needed boot parameters and stuff. Btw, one of them will tell you the absolute minimum memory requirements. HTH cu, Schnobs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
