> On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Yaron wrote: > > > I'm trying to put debian on this Toshiba Tecra 8100. The CD won't boot, > > and I don't have a floppy on me. The CD boots on other machines and other > > CDs (Mandrake) boots on THIS machine. The Toshiba Tecras are notorious for their incompatiblity with the 'bzImage' kernel format. You have to use a 'zImage' format. The reason for this has to do with part of the boot process. (the compression method used to decompress the kernel fails and hangs on the tecras). Since the CD-ROM internally contains the image of the psudo-boot floppy, the CD-ROM will never boot in that machine if the image on the CDROM is 'bzImage' To get around this, there are (or at least used to be) specific "tecra" boot disks for Debian. You will have to boot from this floppy and mount the CD-ROM. This would apply for installation without CD as well. You need the 'zImage' based boot disk. When/if you ever recompile the kernel, you will also need to do a make zImage as well or your new kernel will not boot. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- What the president of the Motion Picture Association of America says about taking away your constitutional rights: "I'm rather jubilant now. What Judge Kaplan did was blow away every one of these brittle and fragile rebuttals. He threw out fair use; he threw out reverse engineering; he threw out linking." - Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ______ _ __ "If you don't have the freedom to use what you / ' ) ) own - then you do not own anything." / o ______ / / _ . . No apologies to Jack Valenti or the MPAA / <_/ / / < / (_</_(_/_ -- tneu at visi.com / http://www.visi.com/~tneu --