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debian boot problem
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| Hello,
since I couldn't find any good debain newsgroup, I felt free to post my
question here. Correct me if I am wrong.
I want to install debian on a computer using the internet
(ftp.nl.debian.org) as a source for the packages. In order to do this I
needed two disks, a rescue disk and a root disk. When I boot I get the error
described in the installation guide,
http://www.debian.org/releases/stab...ue-boot.en.html section
5.6.1 The floppydrive doesn't recognise the root disk, and I am flowed with
I/O errors. The rescuedisk is no problem. I created the disk by downloading
them and rawrite them to disk. The site suggest redownloading and retrying,
but I retried 6 times now, without result. I also tried another diskdrive.
(same type).
Is there a way to solve this?
thanks in advance
Erik
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| Sybren Stuvel 2002-10-28, 7:24 am |
| Tranq wrote:
> Is there a way to solve this?
Burn one of the "minimal CD" images on a CDrom and use that to boot. I've
used the first one in the list (on the minimal-cd-page) successfully
multiple times already.
Sybren
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| Peter T. Breuer 2002-10-28, 7:24 am |
| Tranq <erikjanpol@hotmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stab...ue-boot.en.html section
> 5.6.1 The floppydrive doesn't recognise the root disk, and I am flowed with
> I/O errors. The rescuedisk is no problem. I created the disk by downloading
Then I suggest you copy to a working floppy disk next time.
Peter
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| John Hasler 2002-10-28, 8:24 am |
| Erik writes:
> since I couldn't find any good debain newsgroup,
The best place for Debian questions is the debian-user mailing list. Go to
www.debian.org to subscribe.
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John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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| Of course, as the link suggests, I have used different disks, up to 6. I
thought this was trivial.
Erik
"Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es> wrote in message
news:uoajpa.1s2.ln@news.it.uc3m.es...
> Tranq <erikjanpol@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > http://www.debian.org/releases/stab...ue-boot.en.html
section
> > 5.6.1 The floppydrive doesn't recognise the root disk, and I am flowed
with
> > I/O errors. The rescuedisk is no problem. I created the disk by
downloading
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> Then I suggest you copy to a working floppy disk next time.
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> Peter
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| > The best place for Debian questions is the debian-user mailing list. Go
to
> www.debian.org to subscribe.
Thanks, didn't think of that.
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| Tranq 2002-10-28, 11:25 am |
| > Burn one of the "minimal CD" images on a CDrom and use that to boot. I've
> used the first one in the list (on the minimal-cd-page) successfully
> multiple times already.
Why is such an image much larger than the two disks required to start the
installation? does a cd also contain the kernel?
You must know, I am preparing a server installation, on an older computer.
That's why I want the installation as clean as possible.
Erik
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| William D. Tallman 2002-10-28, 10:24 pm |
| Tranq wrote:
> Hello,
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> since I couldn't find any good debain newsgroup, I felt free to post my
> question here. Correct me if I am wrong.
[snip]
Try linux.debian.user
Bill Tallman
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Registered Linux User: #221586
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| Bill Marcum 2002-10-28, 11:24 pm |
| On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:10:42 GMT,
Tranq <erikjanpol@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> since I couldn't find any good debain newsgroup, I felt free to post my
> question here. Correct me if I am wrong.
>
> I want to install debian on a computer using the internet
> (ftp.nl.debian.org) as a source for the packages. In order to do this I
> needed two disks, a rescue disk and a root disk. When I boot I get the error
> described in the installation guide,
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stab...ue-boot.en.html section
> 5.6.1 The floppydrive doesn't recognise the root disk, and I am flowed with
> I/O errors. The rescuedisk is no problem. I created the disk by downloading
> them and rawrite them to disk. The site suggest redownloading and retrying,
> but I retried 6 times now, without result. I also tried another diskdrive.
> (same type).
>
> Is there a way to solve this?
>
Were you running rawrite in Windows? Try shutting down to DOS mode (in
Windows 95 or 98).
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