HD Install :: Diskette boots up, but does not find what it shoul

Hi all, I'm trying to install DSL on a P2 233 Mhz, 64 Mb ram, 15 Gb hard drive. Since I can't boot from the CD Drive, I use a disquette to boot then use the CD from the drive.

I have the DSL splash screen, I press enter, the thing begins to boot, he says he detects usb stuff, and then everything stops, ending by a kernel panic. Here's a picture, as I can't type everything on the screen:

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/8804/ssa40996an3.jpg

Furthermore, the poorman's method does not work (OS used: Win98).

Any help appreciated.

Can you get an earlier screenshot?

Try booting with "dsl failsafe lowram" maybe.. or other cheat codes (see wiki)
To avoid all those scanning entries, you might also add "fromhd=/dev/sda1"

Well what happens is the following:

-i have the tux logo, and the Welcome to DSL Ascii-Art
-then I have 4 lines saying "found USB devices handled by...*name of driver*

-and then I have all the lines like showed on the previous screenshot: {DRE}Looking for DSL image in /dev/sda1 etc.

Even with your options, the result is the same. By the way, my CD driver is shown as sdc, so I tried bootfromhd=/dev/hdc, but it doesn't work.

Oh yeah, and just so you know, I do not want to boot from USB. I want to boot from CD-ROM, and then install DSL on hard drive.

Is your cdrom a scsi device?
When you boot poorman's can you access your cdrom?

My cdrom isn't a scsi. When I boot poorman's, i can't do anything more than normally.

Well anyway, I managed to install DSL by plugging the HD into another PC and then moving it back. Thanks for your help guys.

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