Well I've got a 'solution' :-) The reason I didn't use any floppy is simple because they are most of the time broken, old, etc...not very reliable. But if you don't have any bandwidth, stick with the floppy :-)
I downloaded the complete Debian ISO and burned it on a CD, then bought a crappy ATA 50X cd-rom drive for $30. The reason that I did this was that the ATA drives are really plug and play AND bootable! I think on every pentium u can boot with this kind of drive. Now I only plugged it to my OLD P133 and ready to go! No boot floppy's, corrupted files, missing sectors etc... Before I used 'windoos 98' bootfloppy's to get CD-rom support and then booted Debian from DOS. With the Crappy ATA drive you're the king :) I hope it helped u a bit :) Good luck! kleinejan > Hello guys! > I am new to Debian Linux. After downloading files from BASE-i386 and > DISK-i386 directory, i've tried to install debian. I typed INSTALL and > the install.bat file run. After loading some modules, I am stuck to the > the following message: > > Kernel Panic : VFS : Unable to mount root on FS on 01:00 > > What have I missed? Please help! > > Thanks and more power. > > Arnold > > > ________________________________ * J a n E n n i n g MoBiLe:06-26 106 926 faX:020 88 26 297 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kleinejan.org ICQ:5506065