> Hi, IU've been using debian for about one year now on my desktop PC, and > I just got a Gateway 400XL for college. I really want to put debian on > it, however, I cannot seem to boot it from any rescue disks in order to > install it. I'd really like to use woody or sarge, but I'll use > whatever I can get to work... when booting, the boot process just stops > here: > > ..... > Floppy Drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M > FDC 0 is a national semiconductor PC87306 > md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 > > > Any advice would be helpful... This error occurs when using the woody > rescue disk which is the 2.2.20 kernel. Any help would be > appreciated... I leave for college in 3 days and am in desperate need of > debian!!
Copy the first CD to hard disk (by CDROM, network or whatever) and install from hard disk (dir install on CD, run boot.bat from DOS/DOS mode). If you have CDROM that is supported by installer, you can even not copy CD to hard disk at all! Good luck.
