Linux install hangs hard on kernel load

Todd Hought plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
06 Feb 2002 10:39:51 -0700


I can attest to that with Storm, did that very thing a while back. And
while it will take a while and a lot of apt-get -f install'ing, it does
work. I managed to upgrade a stormix system to debian unstable with no
serious problems.
-T

On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 10:25, Blake Barnett wrote:
> Storm is based on Debian, and if you change your /etc/apt/sources.list
> to Debian mirrors, you can simply do an 'apt-get update && apt-get -u
> dist-upgrade'  (-u lists what's going to get upgraded).  
> 
> Don't know if it will upgrade smoothly, but theoretically it should.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 22:13, William Lindley wrote:
> > Attempting to load Linux on a friend's AMD K5 box... pretty much every
> > distro we tried (Mandrake 8.1, 8.0, 7.1, Redhat 7.0, 6.0 -- okay we didn't
> > try Debian or SuSe)... you get the screen (F1 for help or Enter to load),
> > press Enter and it says, "Loading cdrom.img" or "loading boot.img" ...
> > prints three dots and hangs, even pressing NumLock doens't blink the
> > light.
> > 
> > The only one that would load was an ancient icky version of Storm Linux.
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> > 
> > \\/
> > 
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