boot floppy problems

2003-06-11 Thread Rikard Borg
Hi list Trying to install debian woody on my old 7200/75. Downloaded files in binary format. Created the floppy many time with mac/windows XP/linux but it is allways the same thing: - When booting with the boot-floppy-hfs.img I see a small picture with the pinguine (sp?) in front of a monitor

Re: Boot floppy problems

1998-08-04 Thread Helge Hafting
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/04/98 at 08:39 AM, "Helge Hafting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Kernel panic :VFS unable to mount root fs on 01:00 >Could this merely be a bad floppy, or am I doing something wrong? I have >trouble making those floppies, the rawrite2 program will usually >complain

Boot floppy problems

1998-08-04 Thread Helge Hafting
I am trying to install hamm on my home machine, from cdrom. I can't boot a CD directly, so I tried to make a rescue floppy and boot that. The machine has 2 ide drives, and 5 scsi devices: 0:500M harddisk, 1:1200M harddisk, 2:cdrom, 4:40M harddisk, 5:tape drive I want to put linux on the first 2 s

boot floppy problems - invalid compressed format

1996-08-06 Thread Steve Gaarder
I'm having a lot of trouble getting Debian on a 486 box. It's a pretty generic machine, with an IDE hard drive & cdrom, AMD 486 CPU on a motherboard with the Opti chipset. Special kernel 0 doesn't get anywhere at all. THe standard kernel gets to this point: Loading. Uncompressing Linux

boot floppy problems

1996-06-07 Thread Bruce Perens
I've refrained from getting into the internals of "dialog", but it does not look as if I have any choice. The core dump in "modconf" and the suppression of character echo in the boot floppy are both caused by a (reasonably simple) bug in dialog concerned with its trying to render a string that is t