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In trying to reinstall Debian 2.2 in my P133 from the CD-ROM,
using the same CD I used to make the existing installation, After
reading the installation instructions that are provided by Debian, I am
still having problems RE-installing Debian. Now, the installation
process needed for my system, according to the web page, goes like this
1. Create install boot disks
1.a RESCUE DISK
Having a newly formatted [ext2] floppy disk labeled RESCUE.DSK
I did the following:
cd/cdrom/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44
dd if=rescue.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 conv=sync ; sync
1.b ROOT DISK
I then inserted a new disk labeled ROOT.DSK and did the
following:
cd/cdrom/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44
dd if=root.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 conv=sync ; sync
2. BOOT UP
After creating the RESCUE.DSK and the BOOT.DSK, I proceeded to
boot up the system. I inserted the RESCUE.DSK in the floppy
[/dev/fd0] and rebooted the machine, but to my astonishment I
got a message saying "boot up failed".
I checked the new and existing [from the existing Debian installation]
RESCUE.DKSs and noticed a different file list between the two
RESCUE.DKSs, check it out!
Existing RESCUE.DKS file list
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
total 981
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Jul 13 19:43 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 jorge jorge 559 May 2 02:07 message.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 jorge jorge 80 May 2 02:07 syslinux.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jorge jorge 985303 May 2 02:07 linux
-r--r--r-- 1 jorge jorge 5860 Dec 19 1999 ldlinux.sys
drwxr-xr-x 2 jorge jorge 7168 Dec 31 1969 .
New RESCUE.DKS file list
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
total 1083
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Jul 13 19:43 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 jorge jorge 1470 Nov 30 2000 install.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 jorge jorge 634 Nov 30 2000 rdev.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 jorge jorge 1108 Nov 30 2000 syslinux.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jorge jorge 7 Nov 30 2000 type.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 jorge jorge 1182 Nov 30 2000 debian.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 jorge jorge 804 Nov 30 2000 f1.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 jorge jorge 759 Nov 30 2000 f10.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 jorge jorge 752 Nov 30 2000 f2.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 jorge jorge 1071 Nov 30 2000 f3.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 jorge jorge 1209 Nov 30 2000 f4.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 jorge jorge 1191 Nov 30 2000 f5.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 jorge jorge 1373 Nov 30 2000 f6.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 jorge jorge 833 Nov 30 2000 f7.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 jorge jorge 1348 Nov 30 2000 f8.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 jorge jorge 1269 Nov 30 2000 f9.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 jorge jorge 896 Nov 30 2000 readme.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 jorge jorge 3740 Nov 30 2000 config.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 jorge jorge 985303 Nov 30 2000 linux
-rw-r--r-- 1 jorge jorge 80968 Nov 30 2000 sys_map.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 jorge jorge 5860 Nov 30 2000 ldlinux.sys
drwxr-xr-x 2 jorge jorge 7168 Dec 31 1969 .
The reason why I am creating a new RESCUE.DSK is because the existing
one, does not ask me for the ROOT.DSK; which leads me to believe that it
probably is not a RESCUE.DSK at all, but it is the one I have been using
to boot up the machine after I tried to upgrade the kernel using
apt-get. Debian docs say that if there is a problem my machine was not
going to be render inoperable, but w/o the "existing RESCUE.DKS" I
cannot boo up the machine.
Please, any suggestions would be very much appreciated.
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