Am 2006-05-25 21:40:39, schrieb Liudmila Yafremava: > > Hello! > using only floppies. I made attempts to install both potato > and sarge that way, with the same result: after booting with a > linux boot floppy, the machine demands a root floppy but > never releases the floppy drive (it continues to spin). When, > ignoring that, I pull the boot floppy and replace it with the > root floppy, it responds with a bunch of queer messages and > "unable to mount root floppy" etc. Somewhere I read that > initial linux boot floppy does not have the pcmcia drivers > on it, so the machine may not be able to communicate with > its floppy in such an install. Correct me if I am wrong.
I had this sort of problems too... But it is easy to solv, IF you 1) Can boot with a Win95B bootfloppy downloaded from the internet 2) Remove all what is not neccesary for creating a DOS partition and formating it. 3) Download syslinux.exe and rawread.exe from the internet and put it on the floppy too. 5) Boot the Floppy and crate a DOS partition of around 28 MByte and make it DOS bootable. 6) reboot the system and copy syslinux.exe and "example-preseed.txt" to the Harddrive C: 6) Rename the "example-preseed.txt" to "syslinux.cfg" and edit it to your needs 7) now on another system download the files boot.img.gz initrd.gz vmlinuz from the directory /debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/ 8) Split the boot.img.gz into 6 parts of 1,3 MByte and transfer it to drive c: 9) Do the same with initrd.gz (3 parts) 10) vmlinuz can be copied directly 11) now resemble the singel parts with copy \b boot.img.gz.1 \b boot.img.gz.2 \b boot.img.gz.3 \b boot.img.gz.4 \b boot.img.gz.5 \b boot.img.gz.6 \b boot.img.gz.7 \b boot.img.gz.8 boot.img.gz and copy \b initrd.gz.1 \b initrd.gz.2 \b initrd.gz.3 initrd.gz 12) now call syslinux c: which will write the bootsector... 13) If you NOW reboot the system, it will start the installation directly from the 28 MByte DOS-Partition ATTENTION: Instead of syslinux you can use loadlin.exe and the install.bat provided by Debian. In this case, you have not the need to make C: bootable for syslinux... ...and if you configure LILO/GRUB right after successfull installation, you can always boot into the DOS partition for new installations or such. Greetings Michelle Konzack -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ ##################### Debian GNU/Linux Consultant ##################### Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi 0033/6/61925193 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]