Hi Folks. I've a problem with the base system install of potato (original) The computer is an AMD K6-2-350 on an ASUS P5A-B with a WD 10Gb IDE, S3 Trio 3D/SX video and a 3Com 905B network card. The HD already has potato installed, but the enduser wants a second operating system :-( so I want to reinstall potato. I'm using the idepci rescue & root floppies from kernel-image-2.2.17-idepci_2.2.17pre6-1 The rescue floppy reads fine, and the root disk seems to load OK too. Up come the Release Notes beginning This is the Debian Rescue floppy, version 2.2.16 I hit Enter to continue, the screen blinks a few times and returns to the Release Notes page. If I try hitting Return a few times, *occasionally* the message trying to determine the state of my system appears very briefly on the screen, before inevitably returning to the Release Notes. Has anyone else reported this behaviour? Do I have to pass any special arguments to the boot procedure for a reinstall? Thanks in advance. Jim +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Jim Skea | Grupo de Fisica Computacional | | E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Departamento de Fisica Teorica | | WWW http://www.dft.if.uerj.br/JimSkea | Instituto de Fisica, UERJ | | | Rua Sao Francisco Xavier 524 | | FAX (+55) 21 587 7296 | Maracana | | Tel (+55) 21 587 7891 (Dept.) | 20559-900 Rio de Janeiro -- RJ | | | Brazil | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
