On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 22:21:37 -0700
Alan Dayley <
alandd@consultpros.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 09 October 2004 10:13 pm, Dennis Kibbe wrote:
> >
> > Don't know, but I'm rarely in favor of using an older distro. Why give up
> > all that progress!
>
> I also don't want something older. BUT..
>
> Slack 8 root floppy (color.gz) worked! BUT...
>
> The command line I used at boot was:
>
> ramdisk floppy=thinkpad root=/dev/fd0
>
> The previous error about the "Please set the root= option" triggered that
> thought. Now I think I should go try that with Slack 10 boot and root disks.
> This I will now do.
>
> > This post might give you some ideas. Basically, booting a kernel on the
> > hdd (rather than a floppy) seemed to have some success for this person.
>
> I think you forgot the reference to the post. :^)
>
> Alan
Ah, invisible ink, perhaps? <g>
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/1997/05/msg00999.html
Dennisk
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