Re: [Devel] Skolelinux PR36 - First Try (failed)

[Cord Beermann <skolelinux.no@xxxxxxx>]

Hallo! Du (Petter Reinholdtsen) hast geschrieben:

>[Cord Beermann]
>> I tried to install skolelinux PR36 to a Pentium166-Box and get this:
>> 
>> | ISOLINUX 1.67/debian-cd 2002-05-14 isolinux: Loading spec packet
>> | failed, trying to wing it ...
>> | 
>> | isolinux: Failed to locate CD-ROM device; boot failed.
>> 
>> The system itself is fine, it runs Debian-testing (until yesterday)
>> and booting with Knoppix (mid 2002) and Linuxtag-Debian-CDs from
>> 2000 and 2001 isn't also no problem.
>
>Strange.  We use the same boot mechanism that is used on Debian/Woody
>CD 1.

Hmmm... i don't have a woody-CD. my other systems are all installed
with some bootable CDs and brought uptodate with apt. But maybe i can
get one for testing.

>  You can try to boot from floppy, the on on the CD as
>install/skolelinux-cdrom144-1440.img.

uh. floppies ;-) 

>> the system has a Phoenix-BIOS 4.05 and an Adaptec 2940U/UW/D
>> SCSI-Controller. hmmm... what else could be interesting?
>
>I have heard about some boot problems on old BIOSes.  Is the Phoenix
>BIOS old?

it dates itself on 1996.

>> To continue testing: is it possible to install a small Debian
>> $something and point sources.list to the skolelinux-CD to update, or
>> do i miss something then? (questions somewhere in the installer?)

>Not easily.  You will miss most of the skolelinux configuration.  You
>need to make sure base-config-skolelinux and discover is installed
>before reboot from HD, and you should also partition the disk with LVM
>support.  Our package only handle CD installs at the moment.  It would
>be nice if it was able to handle network installs as well.

ok. i'll try to boot it somehow to get the picture.

Cord
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