Re: Problems installing Debian on old laptop

2006-05-02 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1146526816 past the epoch, Piers Kittel wrote: Anyway, I've put the old 3GB hard drive back in, installed Windows 98 on, and Debian boots up (with the default 2.6 kernel with no parameters whatsover) and installing fine right now without any problems. Probably some BIOS limitation with

Re: Problems installing Debian on old laptop

2006-05-01 Thread Piers Kittel
To those who helped me, Thanks very much for all your advice, but I've tried all options to disable everything but they're kernel parameters which aren't taken in consideration that early I think? It stops exactly at the point right after uncompressing the kernel - it looks like a bit like

Re: Problems installing Debian on old laptop

2006-04-17 Thread Chris Lale
Piers Kittel wrote: Andrei Adam, On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:25:45 -0500 Adam Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Piers Kittel wrote: When trying to boot Debian (using the 3.1 r0 netboot CD) to install, it won't work at all: I recommend trying the newer testing netboot installer CDs, rather

Re: Problems installing Debian on old laptop

2006-04-17 Thread Bruno Buys
On 4/17/06, Chris Lale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Piers Kittel wrote: Andrei Adam, On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:25:45 -0500 Adam Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Piers Kittel wrote: When trying to boot Debian (using the 3.1 r0 netboot CD) to install, it won't work at all: I recommend trying the newer

Re: Problems installing Debian on old laptop

2006-04-15 Thread Adam Porter
Piers Kittel wrote: When trying to boot Debian (using the 3.1 r0 netboot CD) to install, it won't work at all: I recommend trying the newer testing netboot installer CDs, rather than the Sarge r0 one. It might help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Problems installing Debian on old laptop

2006-04-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:25:45 -0500 Adam Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Piers Kittel wrote: When trying to boot Debian (using the 3.1 r0 netboot CD) to install, it won't work at all: I recommend trying the newer testing netboot installer CDs, rather than the Sarge r0 one. It might

Re: Problems installing Debian on old laptop

2006-04-15 Thread Mitja Podreka
Piers Kittel wrote: [sic] When trying to boot Debian (using the 3.1 r0 netboot CD) to install, it won't work at all: == Booting from CD-ROM ISOLINUX 2.04 2003-04-16 Copyright (C) 1994-2003 H. Peter Anvin Press F1 for help, or ENTER to boot: Loading

Re: Problems installing Debian on old laptop

2006-04-15 Thread Piers Kittel
Andrei Adam, On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:25:45 -0500 Adam Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Piers Kittel wrote: When trying to boot Debian (using the 3.1 r0 netboot CD) to install, it won't work at all: I recommend trying the newer testing netboot installer CDs, rather than the Sarge r0 one.

Problems installing Debian on old laptop

2006-04-14 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, Am trying to install Debian on a fairly old laptop (manufactured 1998), as I've broken my old one (flying hard drives and laptop LCD's doesn't mix well together) and can't afford a new one right now. The laptop is a Pico Systems (long since gone out of business - good riddance)