First, thanks to all who have taken the time to reply. I really appreciate all the help.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Hanson) writes: | From: Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Subject: failed installation of 1.2 on thinkpad. Tips? | | I am trying to install Debian/GNU/Linux 1.2 from floppy disks on | a Thinkpad w/pentium. | I have made the 6 disks as described in | | ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/stable/disks-i386/current/install.html | | I inserted rescue diskette and power cycled. | I read through the on-line instructions and typed | | linux floppy=thinkpad | | and hit Enter. | | Then I got the loading root.bin..., then loading linux...... | messages, but nothing more. It just hung -- I waited at | least 15 minutes before giving up. | | Have I missed something obvious? | | I used these disks to install on a ThinkPad 760C about a month ago. | They worked fine. | | The most likely answer to your problem is that you should not use | "floppy=thinkpad"; I didn't use it on the 760C. Modern ThinkPads do | not need that switch, only older ones, such as the trusty 755C I'm | using right now. I tried with the pre-1.3 rescue disk, with all combinations of the options floppy=thinkpad and floppy=... to no avail. I still haven't gotten past the `loading linux....' part. Here's more info that I should have mentioned before: I'm using a thinkpad 760EL there's an internal CD-ROM drive the floppy drive is external I have not tried the floppyless installation because <blush> I don't even know how to boot DOS on this system, and haven't found any instructions for the floppyless install. Pointers welcome. Thanks again, Jim -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .