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Debian Install Prob

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From: Lucas...
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 00:00
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I recently decided to have a look at the Debian distrib of Linux. I currently
am using Slackware, and just wanted to install Debian to see what the difs
were, and wich one I like better. 

So I got hold of the distribution on CD from InfoMagic, and followed the
installation text file to the word.

I made the disks with rawrite, and rebooted with the recover disk in.

Everything went fine. Linux was uncompressing, and starting, my hardware
was being detected. Then nothing happen, a long pause (Extreamly long 10hrs,
I left it over night as the install.txt file said to expect som e long pauses,
as it may attempt to detect hardware that wasn't there, and waited for it
to respond, causeing the long wait. So when I woke in the morning, I was no
closer than whn i had left off.) the last thing on the screen was

md driver MD_DRIVERMAX= ?????

where ??? is something that I can't quite remember at the moment.

This was after all my drives had been detected, and the floppy had been detected
by this stage as well


does anyone know what the hell is happening...

Thanks...
Lucas
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Lucas Modrich	<modrich@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au>
		<modrich@minyos.its.rmit.edu.au>
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From: modrich@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au (Lucas...)
Subject: Debian Install Prob
Date: 1997/07/30
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