Re: Help Installing Linux

1999-04-04 Thread Kent West
Andrei Ivanov wrote: > > As a wild guess, how do you enter the path where your linux kernel image > is? Hope it's not C:\Debian or whatever like that. > You have to use block devices, such as /dev/hda(b,c,d) > You can get information on partitioning from fdisk. For example, if C is > /dev/hda1, th

Re: Help Installing Linux

1999-04-02 Thread Andrei Ivanov
As a wild guess, how do you enter the path where your linux kernel image is? Hope it's not C:\Debian or whatever like that. You have to use block devices, such as /dev/hda(b,c,d) You can get information on partitioning from fdisk. For example, if C is /dev/hda1, then your C:\Debian becomes /dev/hda

Help Installing Linux

1999-04-02 Thread Bala Iyer
I did succeed in renaming the file from Linux.htm to Linux. I am back to from where I started. All the required files are at C:\Debian. When I type "Install" the same message comes back. "Image file not found. Please enter name of kernet image file followed by optional command line parameters for L

Help Installing Linux

1999-04-02 Thread Bala Iyer
I did succeed in changing the file name to Linux from Linux.htm Still I am back to the same position. When on dos C\Debian (This is where all the required files are kept) I type "Install", as suggested to me last week,I get the same messages: Image file not found. Please enter name of kernel image

Help Installing Linux

1999-04-01 Thread Bala Iyer
Further to the advise of 30th March to check whether the file "linux" via Netscape came with extension ".htm" and to save it as only Linux and not Linux.htm. I tried to do that but could not achieve that. So I tried to download the file (by keeping the shift key down while downloading) again and it

Re: Help installing Linux on a Toshiba laptop

1998-12-17 Thread MallarJ
Thanks to those that offered some help on this, but I managed to get it working yesterday. I'm not sure which item below was the clincher, but if it helps anyone else.. 1) I created install floppies using the normal binaries, i.e. NOT the tecra disks. 2) Boot from the rescue disk,and follow the

Help installing Linux on a Toshiba laptop

1998-12-16 Thread MallarJ
I'm attempting to install Debian onto my laptop. I know I need the tecra disk images, but I'm still having problems. So far I've: Downloaded the files to a directory on my Win95 C: drive. I renamed resc1440tecra.bin to resc1440.bin and drv1440tecra.bin to drv1440.bin. I also guess that the lt