Kyle Barbour wrote:
Amazingly, this worked. It hung for about two minutes after the
hardware detect, and after I'd given up, continued going. Here's the
boot options I used:
boot: expert noapic nousb acpi=off
I tried using fewer, but couldn't get it to work with just noapic or nousb, etc.
Do I
> That's a shame. My only other suggestion would be to try to turn APIC off
> (noapic) and/or usb (nousb).
!!!
Amazingly, this worked. It hung for about two minutes after the
hardware detect, and after I'd given up, continued going. Here's the
boot options I used:
boot: expert noapic nousb acpi
Kyle Barbour wrote:
I'm not really sure what to do here - it might just be that the laptop
is a lost cause, since I have no idea whether anything's broken or
not. I'll post if I discover anything, but my hopes aren't up.
Kyle,
That's a shame. My only other suggestion would be to try to turn
> Have you tried booting with ACPI off? Add acpi=off to the kernel boot
> command line.
Unfortunately, this doesn't help.
Hm.
I'm not really sure what to do here - it might just be that the laptop
is a lost cause, since I have no idea whether anything's broken or
not. I'll post if I discover an
Kyle Barbour wrote:
Hello everyone,/
I'm trying to install Debian Lenny on an old Dell Latitude CPi A366ST,
currently running Win98. KNOPPIX boots on it fine, as does Win98.
However, when I try to install Debian on it, the install hangs right
after "Detecting PC card services". At first, I thoug
> and copied it over. The Wikipedia article on the installer
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/win32-loader_(Debian)) mentions that
> there's a way to have it get it's data from the CD-ROM drive, but so
> far I haven't figured it out.
It looks like the regular Lenny .iso images allow for this, but t
>> >> I'm trying to install Debian Lenny on an old Dell Latitude CPi
>> >> A366ST, currently running Win98. KNOPPIX boots on it fine, as does
>> >> Win98.
>> >
>> > ..use that to visit http://goodbye-microsoft.com/
>> > and install over internet or your own lan mirror.
>>
>> Maybe I wasn't clear -
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:13:32 -0700, Kyle wrote in message
:
> >> I'm trying to install Debian Lenny on an old Dell Latitude CPi
> >> A366ST, currently running Win98. KNOPPIX boots on it fine, as does
> >> Win98.
> >
> > ..use that to visit http://goodbye-microsoft.com/
> > and install over intern
>> I'm trying to install Debian Lenny on an old Dell Latitude CPi A366ST,
>> currently running Win98. KNOPPIX boots on it fine, as does Win98.
>
> ..use that to visit http://goodbye-microsoft.com/
> and install over internet or your own lan mirror.
Maybe I wasn't clear - the problem isn't the lack
On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 22:06:34 -0700, Kyle wrote in message
:
> Hello everyone,/
>
> I'm trying to install Debian Lenny on an old Dell Latitude CPi A366ST,
> currently running Win98. KNOPPIX boots on it fine, as does Win98.
..use that to visit http://goodbye-microsoft.com/
and install over intern
Hello everyone,/
I'm trying to install Debian Lenny on an old Dell Latitude CPi A366ST,
currently running Win98. KNOPPIX boots on it fine, as does Win98.
However, when I try to install Debian on it, the install hangs right
after "Detecting PC card services". At first, I thought this might
have to
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