On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 02:10:16PM +0800 or thereabouts, joel realubit wrote:
[...]
> where i had a smooth installation, but everytime i booted, i'd encounter a
> kernel panic of some sort.... well, i never really got around to addressing
> the problem until yesterday; before yesterday i just made do with mandrake
> 7.... it turns out, i had to recompile my kernel and enable the "Toshiba
> Laptop support", but not as a loadable module but as a... how is it called? a
>
[...]
debian has a boot floppy called tecram.fd i think for this kind of
problems. this was way back when hamm was still the latest. doesn't
mandrake have the same boot floppy so that you don't have to compile
or you can just boot the floppy then install from cd.
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