Re: Install From Floppy and CD-ROM

It is an IDE drive. I didn't see any evidence of the drive in the boot messages. I also tried an old Red Hat boot disk and I *did* see a message about ide0, which I presume is the CD-ROM drive. 1. What should I try so that the kernel can detect my CD-ROM drive? 2. Otherwise, can I install thi

Re: Install From Floppy and CD-ROM

I am using a CD-ROM which I have just bought and which is labeled Debian 2.2rev3 i386, which I believe is "potato". I created the boot disks using "rawrite2.exe" on a friend's DOS machine. Here is the sequence of events Upon booting the machine from floppy, I get the "boot:" prompt. I enter

Re: Install From Floppy and CD-ROM

I am attempting to install Debian on a fairly old machine (Intel 486) which can't be set up to boot from the CD. I have created the rescue and root floppy disks and am able to boot using them. However, the installation does not give me the possibility of installing the system from the CD (onl

Install From Floppy and CD-ROM

I am attempting to install Debian on a fairly old machine (Intel 486) which can't be set up to boot from the CD. I have created the rescue and root floppy disks and am able to boot using them. However, the installation does not give me the possibility of installing the system from the CD (onl