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Ok, I just got my debian cds in the mail, but cannot install them on my PC.
I'm trying to load them onto an old box, AMD 133mhz, 32m Ram, 2 hard drives totaling around 13g. That isn't my main PC, but I want to get used to linux first, before swapping over all my pcs.
Anyway, I formatted the hard disks and after running fdisk and making the first drive C: the Pri partition, and drive D: the extended partition.
This PC is too old to boot from CD, but I'm using an old win98 startup disk to load the CD drivers. So I type in F:\install\boot.bat and it goes through loading for a couple seconds then stops. The last line reads something like this:
Cannot mount fs on 1:00
Is it something I'm doing wrong? How can I fix this/do it right?
They are on your CD's. You should use the 2.4 kernel floppies available in the dists/stable/main/disks-i386/<version>/images-1.44/bf2.4/ directory. You need the rescue and root floppies, then install everything else from CD.
I found them, and I installed linux on the pc, but I believe I used the vanilla kernel. anyway, now I have another problem that I just recently posted about, if you could look it up here that would be great. Thanks.
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