ello Thanks to the help of Hollis Blanchard, I almost have debian linux install on my rs6000 model 150. However I still need help.
Here's my situation I boot linux from netboot and then I mount my root filesystem from floppy. I have built a custom kernel from the 2.4 devel tree using a cross compiler and I have dd'd a root floppy using a debian chrp root.bin image. When I boot the linux kernel, it asks me to insert the root floppy and hit enter. I do so and it soon after displays a nice blue screen with centered grey field and black text. which says Debian GNU Linux 2.2 boot floppy 2.2.23. I hit enter, the screen flashes up a dialog quickly which says something like, "The installation program is determining the state of your system and the next step of the installation procedure to be performed." Then the screen returns to the opening screen. If I hit enter, it will repeat this sequence ad nausem. That sucks. I can get to virtual terminal 2 and cd/ls about the filesystem. I tried to mount /dev/scd0 (My cdrom?) but it says the filesystem is read only and it wont let me mount anything. Which is weird because, I can make a directory to mount the cdrom onto and mount says the root filesystem is mounted rw. Any idea what to do next? JD