Hi, >I have just been given an Indy and a Challenge, by the college I work for. >They were throwing the machines out and I managed to convince them to >throw them my way. However, unfortunately I seem to be to late to prevent >them from throwing out the system CDs. So, I decided I'll put Linux on the >machines. I have started with the Indy, but I didn't get very far. I >downloaded the Debian distribution and made the CDs, but I can't get the
Debian Woody, I presume? >Indy to boot from the first CD. This is what happens: > >I boot the system. >Click on Stop for Maintenance >Click on Install System Software >Select the CD-ROM and Continue >Then I get an error: Volume header not valid. This is expected, as booting from CD is not supported. You have to do a network install. I have no idea if you can boot off the new debian installer CDs for 3.1 (Sarge), but I doubt it. BTW, as I did the install on my Indy, I ran into a puzzling problem: even after I tftp-booted my box, I was not able to access my CDROM, even though it was working perfectly OK under Irix. Turned out that I had to switch *off* parity checking, because the Linux driver had parity off as well. This was at least a year ago, so YMMV, but I thought I'll mention it. HTH, Uli PS: You should include a real name in the header - my spam filter classified your mail as junk. -- Dipl. Inf. Ulrich Teichert|e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stormweg 24 |listening to: Noticable One (Rotten Apples) 24539 Neumuenster, Germany|Obstacle 1 (Interpol) Paranoia (N.Y. Rel-X)
