Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 19:00:00 +0100
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: new libretto and already in trouble :)
I had wanted a libretto for yonks and finally got one with manuals, disks and an
external cd drive last week. It's a 110 with the standard RAM etc. I want to run
Debian purely.
Like an idiot I slpped in a Debian potato boot /root floppies and was quite surprised
when the kernel fell over, after an (all too brief) glance at the web I located a
couple of images from a japanese ftp site that looked to be what i was after, they
were debian 2.1 rescue disk and a driver disk specifically for librettos.
The rescue disk booted fine and I *thought* the drivers were loaded ok. My cdrom made
pleasing noises when i did the "configure device drivers module" after successfully
loading the drivers floppy.
But alas - i couldn't seem to locate the cdrom to begin the base install, neither did
my ethernet card show any signs of life for an ftp install (i have adsl).Does it
appear as an IDE /ATAPI drive - or does it just mount it when it knows it's there. I'm
a pcmcia newbie you see. :(
So - feeling a little sheepish I read more -on the web and subsequently thought it
would be safer to do a recovery back to win98, and download linux to a partition there
as people have suggested.
..but.. (!) the boot floppy it came with is completely not happy since I trashed it's
partitioning with my own, and it asks me how i want to partition and then hangs...so
no starting afresh it seems. :(
I'm so cheesed off - i really wanted to play with it this weekend and now I have run
out of ideas.
Have I completely messed it up or is there still hope?
tia
:)
--lucy
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