@SUBJECT:Debian (not Linux) newbie question #2 N Hi again all...
Question #2 of problems getting Debian install. I tried a test install of Pacific Hi-Tech's Debian 1.1.1 CD-ROM on another hard drive (not the one I'm trying to backup) on Friday. All went okay until I got to the part about making a boot floppy. When prompted I stuck a blank floppy in drive a:. The installation program churned out a bunch of 'probing for floppy0' messages and eventually died with 'can't find device' error. I figured it was a bad floppy, so I stuck in another. Same result. Stuck in a third disk. Same thing again. I finally booted Red Hat and just copied over my 2.0.17 kernel to a floppy, ran rdev to set / properly. When I rebooted with the floppy Debian came up. My question is, am I doing something wrong with the Debian installation or is there a bug in 1.1.1? Debian looks like an interesting Linux distribution to play with--as soon as I get things properly backed up and installed. :-) Thanks in advance for any help y'all can offer. Bob ... * ATP/Linux 1.42 * Linux, the choice of a GNU generation.