On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 12:56PM, Donald Spoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 23:35:41 -0500
>> John Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Once again, a million thanks for all your help. Despite my continuing
>>>inability to install, everyone's help is really quite appreciated, and
>>>is truly making me feel I've made the right choice in distros to
>>>attempt.
>>
>>
>> Are you entering "bf24" at the very first ("boot:") prompt?
>>
>> Kevin
>>
When I do that, I actually get "Could not find kernal image: bf24".
I am using the bf2.4 floppy set though. Says "This disk uses the Linux kernel
2.4.18-bf2.4"
>Just to tack on to Kevin's question/suggestion...
>
>An old problem that used to produce the same symptoms was having the
>BIOS set to use PnP. This "should not" be a problem with the 2.4.XX
>kernels, but it wouldn't hurt to go into the BIOS and poke around for a
>"PnP" setting. The various BIOS manufacturers have cleverly disguised
>this so there is no standard, but if you see a setting about either
>"Microsoft OS" or "PnP OS" set it to "No" or "off". I have some MBs
>here that absolutely will NOT recognize my RTL8139 - based NICs until I
>do this. I get the same sort of messages....
That didn't work either. I currently have plug and play set to off, and all the IRQ
stuff set to auto.
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