Re: Problem with floppy install

1997-09-03 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
In an article I wrote: >I'm trying to install debian on a laptop system. I partitioned the >lone 500MB hard drive and installed Win95 and that's up and >running. Now I have a 20MB partition for swap and a 200MB partition >for linux. I pop in the rescue diskette and it boots fine, the >installation

Re: Problem with floppy install

1997-09-02 Thread Jesse Goldman
Hi, I've seen this error once but I'm not sure exactly what caused it. The hard drive had been partitioned in the following way (roughly): /dev/sda1/boot(20MB) /dev/sda2/(~700MB) /dev/sda3swap (whatever was left) where the /boot directory was specifically

Problem with floppy install

1997-09-02 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
I'm trying to install debian on a laptop system. I partitioned the lone 500MB hard drive and installed Win95 and that's up and running. Now I have a 20MB partition for swap and a 200MB partition for linux. I pop in the rescue diskette and it boots fine, the installation procedure sets up the partit