Re: Screen problems with Debian install and USB boot floppies

2003-08-28 Thread Lawrence Folland
Thanks so much for all your detailed notes. I was able to set up the partitions as required. The other part of the trick to get the screen working properly for me was to add the follwing to my boot line: vga=791 That fixed up the screen for the rest of the operation. That suggestion cam

Re: Screen problems with Debian install and USB boot floppies

2003-08-28 Thread Lawrence Folland
Thanks so much for all your detailed notes. I was able to set up the partitions as required. The other part of the trick to get the screen working properly for me was to add the follwing to my boot line: vga=791 That fixed up the screen for the rest of the operation. That suggestion cam

Re: Screen problems with Debian install and USB boot floppies

2003-08-26 Thread Werner Heuser
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 01:54:18PM -0400, Lawrence Folland wrote: ... > I was able to get it to boot off the floppies and start the > installation, but my screen size seems to be such that I cannot see the > last 4 or 5 lines at the bottom. It wasn't too much of a problem until ... Try to use fra

Re: Screen problems with Debian install and USB boot floppies

2003-08-26 Thread Michael Lake
Steve Fosdick wrote: The last time I used the debian installation system the disk partitioning program it used was called cfdisk and, like many other I attach screen dumps showing creating a Linux partition with cfdisk. I am not amused at receiving screen dumps as I have a dialup system. Do

Re: Screen problems with Debian install and USB boot floppies

2003-08-26 Thread Werner Heuser
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 01:54:18PM -0400, Lawrence Folland wrote: ... > I was able to get it to boot off the floppies and start the > installation, but my screen size seems to be such that I cannot see the > last 4 or 5 lines at the bottom. It wasn't too much of a problem until ... Try to use fra

Re: Screen problems with Debian install and USB boot floppies

2003-08-26 Thread Michael Lake
Steve Fosdick wrote: The last time I used the debian installation system the disk partitioning program it used was called cfdisk and, like many other I attach screen dumps showing creating a Linux partition with cfdisk. I am not amused at receiving screen dumps as I have a dialup system

Re: Screen problems with Debian install and USB boot floppies

2003-08-26 Thread Steve Fosdick
On 2003.08.25 18:54, Lawrence Folland wrote: I am trying to install Debian on a Toshiba Portege 3500 (Tablet PC) using the USB boot floppies as can be found at: http://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~blochedu/usb-install/ I was able to get it to boot off the floppies and start the installation,