At Tue, 21 May 2002 12:55:40 +1000, Richard Hayes wrote: > I have just acquired an old 486 with 200 meg hd. (Versa E 486/50???) > > Though I have got the bios set to boot from floppy, it say boot failure. It > gives an error saying something about Rom bios
the exact error message would probably be useful. "Troubleshooting the Install Process" (http://www.au.debian.org/releases/testing/i386/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-boot-troubleshooting) lists "floppy disk reliability" as the first point. you might want to try another floppy disk. > Does anyone know how to set the bios to boot off the floppy or any other > useful thing? i'm confused, didn't you just say it already *was* booting from floppy? -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
