Hi, I've been trying my first ever Linux installation from a Debian 2.0 CD, and have run into problems which are beyond me at the moment. I'd be really grateful for some help.
The installation (CD or rescue floppy) loads the Linux kernel, and during the long series of hardware detection messages, successfully detects all the IDE devices and then hangs on the line. md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4 MAX_REAL=8 I've tried many times over with both media, and it always hangs in the same place. After this, I tried a RedHat 5.2 CD which installed successfully first time; on this one, the equivalent line was md driver 0.36.3....etc So now I have a working RedHat install, but I'd actually set my heart on Debian. What hardware is this "md driver" supposed to be driving, and how possible is it to get a Debian boot/rescue disk with the later working (on my PC) version of it? BTW, at three days into being a Linux user, I don't yet feel up to the compile-your-own option. Here are the gory hardware details in case they help Dell PC with pentium 133 CPU PCI motherboad, Triton chipset 32MB RAM 4 (E)IDE devices Maxtor 7.5 Gb disk WD 1.6 Gb disk SyQuest IDE SyJet Teac IDE CD-ROM S3 Trio video card Soundblaster AWE32 Thanks in advance Mark Weston
