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HELP! IBM ThinkPad and Debian Linux

HELP! IBM ThinkPad and Debian Linux

Post by Eric Longma » Fri, 06 Jun 1997 04:00:00



I'm fiddling around trying to get Debian Linux to install on an IBM
ThinkPad 760CD.  I can boot Linux just fine, and walk through the
partitioning phase, but when it asks me to select a floppy device, it can
never see the floppy drive to load the base system.

I've tried /dev/fd0 and /dev/fd1, and tried to mount the floppy manually
from the '#' prompt to no avail.  With /dev/fd0 it doesn't even spin the
floppy before complaining that there's no such drive, with /dev/fd1 it
seems to touch the drive, but doesn't like it.

Any thoughts on possible solutions?  You can post the reply here or send

Many thanks in advance.

Eric Longman

 
 
 
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HELP! IBM ThinkPad and Debian Linux

Post by Eric Longma » Sat, 07 Jun 1997 04:00:00


I'm fiddling around trying to get Debian Linux to install on an IBM
ThinkPad 760CD.  I can boot Linux just fine, and walk through the
partitioning phase, but when it asks me to select a floppy device, it can
never see the floppy drive to load the base system.  I am using the
"floppy=thinkpad" parameter when booting from lilo.

I've tried /dev/fd0 and /dev/fd1, and tried to mount the floppy manually
from the '#' prompt to no avail.  With /dev/fd0 it doesn't even spin the
floppy before complaining that there's no such drive, with /dev/fd1 it
seems to touch the drive, but doesn't like it.

Any thoughts on possible solutions?  You can post the reply here or send

Many thanks in advance.

Eric Longman

 
 
 
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I'm trying to put Debian on it via an http or ftp connection, but when I
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I've tried several disks, reobtained the root image from the same and
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At rescue, at the boot prompt, I've tried: linux=thinkpad or something
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