KD: >> The problem of the moment is that the boot process hangs (or rather, >> loops indefinitely) at statement: >> >> INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes >> >> Any idea idea what causes this and how to fix it?
EB: > what version of boot-floppies are you using? Thought I had a consistent set from potato. Just to be sure I DL'd all files from [1] and overwrote the floppies. On reboot the same error: INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes occurs in the same place. This is still true too: > This step never worked if I tried to install using floppies. > After requesting the first driver disk, the installer gave > the following error message, identically, no matter what > floppy was inserted: > > This is disk 1 of 2 in the drv14pmac series of 15-Apr-2001 01:50 > CDT. > Wrong disk. This is from series drv14pmac. > You need disk 1 of series the driver series. [1] ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-powerpc/current/powermac/images-1.44
