Re: Laptop install gone haywire

1997-11-14 Thread Michael Jinks
Thanks for the suggestions so far; running the install without floppy=thinkpad does get me further into the install, but then I get more strange stuff. The system prints out a set of instructions for continuing the low-memory install, then follows that with a list of fdisk choices. At this point

Re: Laptop install gone haywire

1997-11-14 Thread Carey Evans
"Michael Jinks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 > VFS: Cannot open root device 02:00 > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:00 > > This looks to me like a media error, but I've tried two different copies > of the root filesystem floppy

Laptop install gone haywire

1997-11-14 Thread Michael Jinks
I'm new to this list and new to Debian -- I've been using RedHat for about the past two months though. Before that I was very nearly Unix-free. A brief comb through the archives didn't turn up anything that looked like it pertained to my problem; if you know better, just let me know and maybe poi