On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 01:39:46PM +0100, Stuart Yarrow wrote: > Hello again :-) > > Installing Woody on an Ultra 1 via RARP/TFTP/HTTP using standard files from > a mirror... > > Immediately before it enters the kernel module installation menu, > > cannot create /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe: directory nonexistant > > appears on the background of the display. I'm not sure whether this is a > problem... > > If I try to create a boot disk, the machine hangs as soon as I press enter, > and does not respond to Stop-a. The floppy spins in the drive, but there is > no head movement. This appears to be the same problem as I wrote about > before when booting from floppies.
Formatting a floppy from an Ultra has always caused crashes. I'm not sure why I've left that option enabled. > Assuming that I skip the boot disk creation, all is well until I reboot from > the hard disk for the first time, when I get all the way to the first > dialogue box saying 'Congratulations, you have successfully installed > Debian!' etc, but when I hit enter to continue the machine crashes with a > long series of dumps. > > I also noticed that, as someone else mentioned, it can't read the hardware > clock as it is booting...am I right in thinking that the next stage of the > configuration would be setting up the time zone? Is it possible that this > crash is due to the clock not being set? It's possible that some driver being enabled (when it shouldn't on a U1) is causing the problem. Do you have the ability to compile a kernel? If not, I can try to compile one for you with some things disabled, so you can test. Ben -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
