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I'm trying to install Debian from floppies
but the system hangs on the line

'hde: probing with STATUS instead of ALTSTATUS'

I can't find any documentation on either
STATUS or ALTSTATUS.

I'm trying to install in on a DECpc 320p
notebook.  This system has a 386sx-20
with 8mb of memory and an 84mb conner hard drive.

Any suggestions?

Daniel Mendyke
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Quote:>I'm trying to install Debian from floppies
>but the system hangs on the line

>'hde: probing with STATUS instead of ALTSTATUS'

The system is a DECpc 320p notebook with
8 MB of RAM and a 84 MB Conner harddrive.

Daniel Mendyke
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Sell it OnLine at http://www.virtualvoices.com
==============================================

HTH,

Jens
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Quote:

>> I'm trying to install Debian from floppies
>> but the system hangs on the line

>> 'hde: probing with STATUS instead of ALTSTATUS'

>> I can't find any documentation on either
>> STATUS or ALTSTATUS.

>> I'm trying to install in on a DECpc 320p
>> notebook.  This system has a 386sx-20
>> with 8mb of memory and an 84mb conner hard drive.

>> Any suggestions?

>Only a question:
>Did you use the tecra bootdisk?

>HTH,

>Jens

Yes, I've tried booting from the image file
(on floppy) resc1440.bin, resc1440tecra.bin
and resc1440tecra-fast.bin.  Also, I've
tried booting from RH5.1 image file boot.img

All seem to have the same problem.  I'm now
trying my hand at creating a boot disk from
kernal 2.035 and see if that makes a difference.
Otherwise my luck with digital PCs has been
all bad.

Daniel Mendyke
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Sell it OnLine at http://www.virtualvoices.com
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Quote:

>>> I'm trying to install Debian from floppies
>>> but the system hangs on the line

>>> 'hde: probing with STATUS instead of ALTSTATUS'

>>> I can't find any documentation on either
>>> STATUS or ALTSTATUS.

>>> I'm trying to install in on a DECpc 320p
>>> notebook.  This system has a 386sx-20
>>> with 8mb of memory and an 84mb conner hard drive.

>>> Any suggestions?

Any other suggestions?

Daniel Mendyke
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Sell it OnLine at http://www.virtualvoices.com
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I don't have any problems with ISDN on a Teles 16.3 card, but using a
*normal* modem seems to bug my systems (or me).

I use the ATB40 and the ATDIY4<isp-isdn-no> with pppd and chat, but I
can't
get it to work.

Minicom works fine with the thing...

Loaded the latest firmware on the Zyxel (3.x)

The problem probably lais somewhere in my /etc/ppp/<scripts>

Does anyone has a Zyxel Omni TA128 working fine on Redhat 4.2/5.0 ?
(kernels 2.0.33-35 and 2.1.102-109)

And if so, would somebody please care to help me out with the scripts ?

Regards,
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Pieter

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What other messages have already appeared?  What happens if you append

    hde=noprobe hdf=noprobe

to the LILO / whatever boot prompt?  It sounds strange that your system
would have disks connected to a tertiary IDE controller. I expect that
there is some strange hardware that looks like an IDE interface to the
kernel, but does completely other things when accessed as an IDE interface
(leading to the hang).

Paul Slootman
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