Re: Install potato & woody from floppy disk

2001-10-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 12:27:25PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 01:37:39PM +0800, Liu Tao wrote: > > Kernel panic: VFS: can't mount root fs on 00:20 > You must have specified "root=/dev/fd1" at boot prompt. Kernel is > looking for FD at B: side (/dev/fd1). > If you have sin

Re: Install potato & woody from floppy disk

2001-10-28 Thread nate
Liu Tao said: > I tried potato, and got the same result. > What's wrong with my installation? maybe bad floppy disk? or curropted download? or could be something else. for example before i ditched my BP6 the floppy controller on it was so bad i had to reboot the machine any time i wanted to chang

Install potato & woody from floppy disk

2001-10-28 Thread Liu Tao
I want to install woody from floppy, so I downloaded rescue.bin and root.bin. After booting up computer using rescue disk, installer ask me insert root disk, when I insert the root disk and press enter, a kernel panic occured: Kernel panic: VFS: can't mount root fs on 00:20 I tried potato, and got

Re: Install potato & woody from floppy disk

2001-10-28 Thread Rob Bradford
On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 01:37:39PM +0800, Liu Tao wrote: > I want to install woody from floppy, so I downloaded > rescue.bin and root.bin. > After booting up computer using rescue disk, installer > ask me insert root disk, when I insert the root disk and > press enter, a kernel panic occured: > Ker

Re: Install potato & woody from floppy disk

2001-10-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 01:37:39PM +0800, Liu Tao wrote: > Kernel panic: VFS: can't mount root fs on 00:20 > > I tried potato, and got the same result. > What's wrong with my installation? You must have specified "root=/dev/fd1" at boot prompt. Kernel is looking for FD at B: side (/dev/fd1). If

Re: Install potato & woody from floppy disk

2001-10-28 Thread dman
On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 01:37:39PM +0800, Liu Tao wrote: | I want to install woody from floppy, so I downloaded | rescue.bin and root.bin. | After booting up computer using rescue disk, installer | ask me insert root disk, when I insert the root disk and | press enter, a kernel panic occured: | Ker

Re: Install potato & woody from floppy disk

2001-10-27 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Liu Tao wrote on Sat Oct 27, 2001 um 01:37:39PM: > ask me insert root disk, when I insert the root disk and > press enter, a kernel panic occured: > Kernel panic: VFS: can't mount root fs on 00:20 Try another floppy disk. Many of them get errors after few weeks of use. If it does not hel

Install potato & woody from floppy disk

2001-10-27 Thread Liu Tao
I want to install woody from floppy, so I downloaded rescue.bin and root.bin. After booting up computer using rescue disk, installer ask me insert root disk, when I insert the root disk and press enter, a kernel panic occured: Kernel panic: VFS: can't mount root fs on 00:20 I tried potato, and got