newbie² in trouble: installation failshello there, ( please forgive my poor English)I've got an interesting case for you linux wizzkids...I tried to install Debian 2.1 and now i can't boot from hard disk andfloppy, or reinstall the system:I tried to install Debian 2.1 on a 486 with floppies.I managed to bootfrom hard disk, and started doing some linux. Soon i got tired ofdownloading the packages each time i wanted to try something new andordered the cdroms. First wanted to configure the cd-driver for mycreative labs CR-563 B in linux, it never worked out(also in dselect).After a while i convinced myself it would be better to reinstall (whatwould allow me to repartition as well). I still had a rescue and a bootdisk. I repartitioned, and wanted to continue with a cdrom-installation.I couldn't configure my cdrom-driver. I tried a few things, and gave it up. When i wanted to reboot, i found out my hard disk was empty(i partitioned it), and i tried to reboot with my boot disk. Linux stopped booting with an 'unable to open an initial console' message. Then i could only try to reinstall with floppies. When i started the whole installation once again everything seemed allright, till i came at 'install the OS kernel and modules' where you have to insert the rescue disk (it was already inserted). i got 'this is not the rescue floppy...'message. tried it again and again, nothing helped. I threw the floppy away, took another computer, rawrited2 resc1440.bin to it, this one didn't work either, nor did any other floppy.(all formatted 14.4 disks that allowed me to start the installation but stopped at the same point).So these are my questions: how can i get Linux to understand that i'musing the right floppies? how can i configure my CR-563 creative labs in the installation program? what is this message when i boot from a boot-floppy:'unable to open an initial console'?here are some technical details: MB: Sis85c47,BIOS: Award v 4.50G,12MBram, SB16 with CR-563B CDROM (proprietary), linuxver: Debian 2.1, kernel

1999-08-03 Thread Mike Bulmer
hello there, (please forgive my poor English) Hi Damiaan No need, Your English is very good. I don't know anything about your cdrom, but I do have allot Of experience with bad disks. Try A different disk and redownload resc1440.bin and rawrite it again it may have gotten corrupted

Re: newbie² in trouble: installation failshello there, (please forgive my poor English)I've got an interesting case for you linux wizzkids...I tried to install Debian 2.1 and now i can't boot from hard disk andfloppy, or reinstall the system:I tried to install Debian 2.1 on a 486 with floppies.I managed to bootfrom hard disk, and started doing some linux. Soon i got tired ofdownloading the packages each time i wanted to try something new andordered the cdroms. First wanted to configure the cd-driver for mycreative labs CR-563 B in linux, it never worked out(also in dselect).After a while i convinced myself it would be better to reinstall (whatwould allow me to repartition as well). I still had a rescue and a bootdisk. I repartitioned, and wanted to continue with a cdrom-installation.I couldn't configure my cdrom-driver. I tried a few things, and gave itup. When i wanted to reboot, i found out my hard disk was empty(ipartitioned it), and i tried to reboot with my boot disk. Linux stoppedbooting with an 'unable to open an initial console' message. Then icould only try to reinstall with floppies. When i started the wholeinstallation once again everything seemed allright, till i came at'install the OS kernel and modules' where you have to insert the rescuedisk (it was already inserted). i got 'this is not the rescuefloppy...'message. tried it again and again, nothing helped. I threw thefloppy away, took another computer, rawrited2 resc1440.bin to it, thisone didn't work either, nor did any other floppy.(all formatted 14.4disks that allowed me to start the installation but stopped at the samepoint).So these are my questions: how can i get Linux to understand that i'musing the right floppies?how can i configure my CR-563creative labs in the installation program?what is this message when i bootfrom a boot-floppy:'unable to open an initial console'?here are some technical details: MB: Sis85c47,BIOS: Award v 4.50G,12MBram, SB16 with CR-563B CDROM (proprietary), linuxver: Debian 2.1, kernel

1999-08-03 Thread Mark Wagnon
Holy smoke! I didn't know one could get that much into a Subject header!!! -- __ _ Mark Wagnon Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: resc1440.bin for slink?

1998-11-20 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Alex McCool wrote: Is there a resc1440.bin image for slink? All I can find is resc1742.bin ( whatever size that is) There will be one very soon.

resc1440.bin for slink?

1998-11-19 Thread Alex McCool
Is there a resc1440.bin image for slink? All I can find is resc1742.bin ( whatever size that is) Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: custom made drv1440.bin resc1440.bin

1998-10-31 Thread Jeremiah Cornelius
for aic7890 and 3m905B. I would like to patch the source of 2.0.35 with the news drivers and make the drv1440.bin, resc1440.bin and root.bin disks on the old system. How do I make these boot disks after compiling the new patched kernel. -Oz -- NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California

custom made drv1440.bin resc1440.bin

1998-10-30 Thread Oz Dror
Hi, I am planning to upgrade my system with aic7890 and 3c905B. there are not boot disks that supports the new drivers for aic7890 and 3m905B. I would like to patch the source of 2.0.35 with the news drivers and make the drv1440.bin, resc1440.bin and root.bin disks on the old system. How do I

Re: custom made drv1440.bin resc1440.bin

1998-10-30 Thread Jim Foltz
Hello, Section 8.3 of the installation manual may help. It says to copy your custom kernel to over the file named linux on the rescue floppy and run the rdev.sh script that is found on the floppy. -- Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Help] resc1440.bin (kernel) crash

1998-08-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
JC == Jimen Ching [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JC 1. How do I set my hostname? Everywhere the hostname should appear, the JC string (none) is placed there instead, no qoutes. Check /etc/hostname. It should be the hostname without the domain part (like mybox. Then in /etc/hosts you should have

Re: [Help] resc1440.bin (kernel) crash

1998-08-23 Thread Jimen Ching
On Fri, 21 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Jimen Ching wrote: Instead, try to unpack base2_0.tgz directly onto your hosed system. IIRC it contains all the necessary devices and essential libs. Just boot the rescue floppy, switch to VC2 and mount your root filesystem on

Re: [Help] resc1440.bin (kernel) crash

1998-08-21 Thread Jimen Ching
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Jimen Ching wrote: Please help me. I accidentally hosed my linux upgrade and need to reinstall from scratch. Hmm, how far did your system fall beyond the edge? Chances are that you may very well be able to fix things

Re: [Help] resc1440.bin (kernel) crash

1998-08-21 Thread joost
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Jimen Ching wrote: After I upgraded to hamm (no problems encountered, good job), I noticed some obsolete packages, which I progressed to remove. I did this in steps so I don't harm my system. I did all of this in X, which may be my first mistake. Everything went fine

Re: [Help] resc1440.bin (kernel) crash

1998-08-21 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Jimen Ching wrote: Hi all, Please help me. I accidentally hosed my linux upgrade and need to reinstall from scratch. But when I tried to boot from the rescue disk, the kernel crashed on me. I have an AHA-2842 SCSI controller. You might want to try the boot disk mentionned below.

Re: [Help] resc1440.bin (kernel) crash

1998-08-21 Thread Peter S Galbraith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Instead, try to unpack base2_0.tgz directly onto your hosed system. I think you'll have to extract files from it using cpio, as there's no tar on the rescue disk. I'm not used to cpio, so what I'm

[Help] resc1440.bin (kernel) crash

1998-08-20 Thread Jimen Ching
Hi all, Please help me. I accidentally hosed my linux upgrade and need to reinstall from scratch. But when I tried to boot from the rescue disk, the kernel crashed on me. I have an AHA-2842 SCSI controller. The kernel detected it and tries to reset something. The next thing I see is

Re: [Help] resc1440.bin (kernel) crash

1998-08-20 Thread joost
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Jimen Ching wrote: Please help me. I accidentally hosed my linux upgrade and need to reinstall from scratch. Hmm, how far did your system fall beyond the edge? Chances are that you may very well be able to fix things and complete the upgrade. But when I

Re: RESC1440.BIN

1998-03-25 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Bill Leach wrote: You are right in that it call for an option in the docs (though the option is 'bs=512'). However, I have pretty much always just specified the 'if', 'of' and they work. Here's another one, I have never had any problems with: cat /vmlinuz /dev/fd0

Re: RESC1440.BIN

1998-03-25 Thread shaul
Were you using rawrite ? I was attempting to install Debian from floppy but the RESC1440.BIN is too large to fit on a 1.44 disk. This seems to make installation impossible. Am I doing something wrong or what? I ended up installing from the hard drive. Other than that, the installation

RESC1440.BIN

1998-03-24 Thread Mike Santner
I was attempting to install Debian from floppy but the RESC1440.BIN is too large to fit on a 1.44 disk. This seems to make installation impossible. Am I doing something wrong or what? I ended up installing from the hard drive. Other than that, the installation is very easy and straight

Re: RESC1440.BIN

1998-03-24 Thread Bill Leach
Well I just copied resc1440.bin to a floppy last night. Did you use?: dd if=resc1440.bin of=/dev/fd0 Mike Santner wrote: I was attempting to install Debian from floppy but the RESC1440.BIN is too large to fit on a 1.44 disk. This seems to make installation impossible. Am I doing something

Re: RESC1440.BIN

1998-03-24 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Well I just copied resc1440.bin to a floppy last night. Did you use?: dd if=resc1440.bin of=/dev/fd0 Just out of curiosity, shouldn't there be a bs=126b in there somewhere. For example: dd if=resc1440.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=126b I seem to be remember the Debian install docs

Re: RESC1440.BIN

1998-03-24 Thread Bill Leach
You are right in that it call for an option in the docs (though the option is 'bs=512'). However, I have pretty much always just specified the 'if', 'of' and they work. -- best, -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] from a 1996

Re: Trouble with resc1440.bin on new Ultra DMA IDE motherboard

1997-11-01 Thread liiwi
trying to install linux. The debian boot disk (resc1440.bin from 1997-10-13 and 1997-08-01) died just after the kernel was loaded and booting, after about 10 kernel boot messages the system rebooted itself (too quick to read just what the last messages were, maybe PCI stuff). The system

Trouble with resc1440.bin on new Ultra DMA IDE motherboard

1997-10-31 Thread Gerald Turner
to install linux. The debian boot disk (resc1440.bin from 1997-10-13 and 1997-08-01) died just after the kernel was loaded and booting, after about 10 kernel boot messages the system rebooted itself (too quick to read just what the last messages were, maybe PCI stuff). The system is an AMD K6

Re: Trouble with resc1440.bin on new Ultra DMA IDE motherboard

1997-10-31 Thread Dave Cook
On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Gerald Turner wrote: Hi Gerald, A friend of mine enrolled in some programming classes and just bought himself a new computer. We were putting the system together last night and I ran into a serious problem while trying to install linux. The debian boot disk (resc1440