Re: Problems installing Debian

1998-10-12 Thread Alexander Bugeja
Thanks for your reply. However I tried 3 different floppies, all without success - none of them has bad sectors either. I really don't think this is a floppy problem. Alex. > I have never seen this particular behavior before. However, strange > problems during installation from floppys is ofte

Problems installing Debian (2)

1998-10-12 Thread Alexander Bugeja
Just to clarify my previous post, I'm installing on a desktop not laptop, and in any case i tried the tecra rescue disk, also without any luck. I've been going through this list's mail archives and it seems other people managed to clear up problems similar to mine using those disks, but not me

Problems installing Debian

1998-10-11 Thread Alexander Bugeja
I am trying to install Debian from floppy (I have the rescue, driver and 5 base floppies set up) on my AMD K6 machine. However when I try to start the installation, with the rescue disk, the machine just reboots. More specifically, I first get the following messages Loading root.bin...