Re: installation problems

["Joseph S.Kallo" <jkallo@midwest.net>]

Hello again,

Looks like I found the source of the trouble.

Its seems that Thinkpads demand a special parameter be invoked right at the
beginning of the setup.

At the boot: prompt one must tell Lilo that "floppy=thinkpad".

It's sitting here just about finished with the installation of Debian. Now
on to X


Joe







At 07:06 PM 9/4/99 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Hello all,
>
>I'm trying to get Linux running on a IBM Thinkpad laptop 755c (486) and am
>having some trouble doing so. I spoke with David Glass this morning and he
>advised me to come to the next SILUG meeting, and I plan on doing so. 
>
>Here is my problem:
>
>The computer has no CDrom, so I downloaded the Debian release which is
>nicely broken up into floppy sized portions. I used Rawrite to copy these
>images onto floppies. The machine boots fine on the rescue disk and runs
>through the first stages of the installation--including partitioning and
>initializing the hard drive. The problem comes at the point when the
>install prog. begins to install the kernel. When I hit return indicating
>that I want to start loading in the kernel it asks me to insert the rescue
>floppy (which is already in the drive). When I hit return it informs me
>that it is unable to mount the floppy. When I alt-f3 it, the error message
>is this:
>
>/dev/fd0: Device not configured
>Mount /dev/fd0 (type msdos) on /floppy: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
>Mount /dev/fd0 (type ext2) on /floppy:/dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
>
>Is it not finding my floppy drive? The drive spins and the light comes on,
>if that makes any difference. 
>
>If anybody can offer any help, I'd sure appreciate it. I'm looking forward
>to hearing more about Linux at the meeting.
>
>Thanks,
>Joe
>
>Joseph S. Kallo
>Dpt. of Philosophy
>Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
>
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Joseph S. Kallo
Dpt. of Philosophy
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

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