I install Debian 1.3 on a now clean partition from 7 diskettes. The last install went smoothly and I created a boot floppy. Very early in the following boot, I get the messages loading linux ... uncompressing Linux ... [there was nothing like "Done"] crc error --system halted To resolve the problem, I created a second set of install disks at another site, but I got the same error. The computer I install on has an Adaptec 2940 SCSI card and I install to /dev/sda9, a SCSI disk. I also have an Atapi CD, which during installation "F4" showed repeated errors, though I did not install from CD -- I supposed that the installation occasionally looked at other devices without need. The Debian installation I had used since November, 1996, works well with this Atapi CD [the CD is probably irrelevant to the installation]. I thought I could scheme around the problem with "chroot". With the rescue disk, I could not "chroot /target", nor could I change root with the "chroot" of the Debian installation and the rescue disk running (I believe I got a "segmentation fault", though using "yard" rescue disks I got an unrecognized variable which was probably a library problem). My solution: I will install with my November, 1996, Debian 1.2 disks. They worked fine for 15 other Debian installs I had done. Then I will convert over to Debian 1.3, following upgrade instructions. Unrelated comment: Evidently, the Debian installation will not recognize a SCSI swap partition on the first partition /dev/sda1. My previous Debian installation used this as a swap partition and the installation showed it still so defined, but the step "Initialize and Activate the Swap Disk Partition" detected no swap partition. I later added the swap partition /dev/sda5 (a logical rather than a primary partition) which the Debian install did detect. Jim Burt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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