Re: Installation Questions

From: Laurenz Albe (no.spam_at_here.invalid)
Date: 07/27/05 

Date: 27 Jul 2005 08:55:44 GMT

Edward S. Baiz Jr. <edbaizjr@comcast.net> wrote:
>>You start by stating that you have a problem with a ram disk, but when
>>I read further I get the impression that you have a problem with a newly
>>bought hard disk. Am I correct?
>
> Yes and no. The new hard works great with my machine. It is just for some
> reason in the installation process, the ram disk freezes up.
>
>>- Are you speaking of an initrd (initial ram disk) in the boot process?
> yes
>
>>- Why do you need the ram disk, how did you create it, what does it do?
> No I did not create it. It was on the debian site for download..
>
>>- Can you boot the computer without the ram disk?
> Probably after I install Linux, but now I am just trying to install it.
>
>>- What do you mean when you say 'turn on the hard disk'?
> My Fault. The hard drive is an external one and is SCSI.
>
> I boot my system using an IDE drive. I have two SCSI CD-RW drives hooked up
> as
> well as a SCSI scanner and a 1-gig SCSI Jaz drive. What I am doing now is
> booting my sytem up. Then I am running a program, on my desktop, that is
> specifically designed for the Atari line of computers (bootstrap program)
> that
> starts the installation process. I did it this way before and it worked

You are booting your system up: from which device? Hard disk? Floppy?
Are you booting Linux?

What is that 'program for the Atari line of computers' that you start,
what does it do? Reboot the computer? Is the computer you have an
Atari? If not, why should the program run?

Please give more details regarding this program and the 'installation
process' it is supposed to start.
>From where did you get that program?
Is there maybe a website or other information that I can read to understand
your problem, so that I don't have to ask you all these silly questions?

Still trying to understand,
Laurenz Albe

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