I have the 505 FX (German win98 pre-installed), I have the PCGA-CD5 coming with it, and I have a box of Debian-2.0 CDs.
I am about to do that installation and I joined this mailing list only today. (If there is anybody having Debian run on some 505, I might also be very interested in off-list asking for advice and exchange of experience.) ------------------------------------------------------------ I have tried that installation weeks ago, but did not have much time then and did not manage to get the installation finished properly to my understanding (due to the CDROM not recognized by the kernel, although I can boot from CD). What I did though manage to get was a kernel and lilo installed in the boot sector of my active partition 3, successfully booting also win98 from partition 1. I never touched the original MBR. ------------------------------------------------------------ In the meantime, I have looked around on the web etc to collect information, and I know about the boot parameters "ide2=0x180,0x386" that are supposed to make the booted kernel recognize the CDROM. Now, I have re-started the installation, I had already done all the required partitioning and have enough space reserved for swap, root, etc, Then, when it comes to install the OS and the modules, the systems asks me for the source, and I choose CD-ROM. >From the menu afterwards, I apparently should not choose /dev/hda1, but proprietary, otherwise it is not mounted (although I could not check if the latter was succesful). Then, I am asked for the driver's floppy, but I do not have created one. I <cancel> the installation process and think "why not use win98 to create this missing floppy and go ahead". However, now the system does not (cold-)boot any longer, because it "cannot find the operating system". Also the linux-boot flopy that I have prepared weeks ago, does not work any longer and tells "Unable to open an initial console" :-( I appreciate any comments, help. advice, hints, pointers, == Uwe ==
