herein lies one of the problems. a g4 doesn't have a floppy drive. i attempted to make a boot c.d. out of the downloaded iso, but only got a data c.d. that was readable, but not bootable.
i downloaded the most recent debian c.d. only about a week ago. how would i discriminate between what i downloaded (potato?) and "woody"? -- Original Message -- > >reinstall using woody boot-floppies. > >On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 12:16:43PM -0700, Jeffrey C. Long wrote: >> >> upon boot, yaboot successfully launches and shows me an icon of the >> >> linux harddrive, but when it is selected, it says it cannot find the >> >> kernel. >> > >> >Are you referring to the graphical boot menu that appears when you hold >> >down 'option' during boot? >> >> yes. >> >> >> >If you boot from the installation disk again and start the installer, >you >> >can then switch to the second virtual console (type command-F2 ... or >was >> >it the third console?) and get a shell. You can then mount your root >> >partition and try to see what's wrong. >> >> unfortunately this presupposes a bit of linux understanding which i am >hoping >> to learn by installing and working on linux. :) it's a circular problem... >> i need to know how to use it to fix it so i can learn how to use it, so >> i can.... >> >> my knowledge so far does include opening a shell from the installer. and >> i assume my redhat linux and linux for dummies books have info on mounting. >> but would you mind spelling it out (mounting), and what i should look >for >> once i've mounted it? thanks. >> >> >If you need more specific ideas of where to look, write back. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >-- >Ethan Benson >http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ >
