On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Shanta McBain wrote: > > > > Hi all > > > > Here is the problem I have been trying to install Debian from a set of > > floppies. Things go well until disk 5 is done and it try's to decompress > > the final file for install. It gives and error that it cant install the > > file and goes to the next step. I then reboot the system. It will go > > through a hole series of incremental segmentation faults to 33 ending > > with > > /etc/fstab: no such file or dir. > > fsck failed Please repair manually > > > > Control-d will exit this shell and continue system start up > > > > give root password for maintenance (or type control-d for normal > > startup): > > > > Control-d takes one back to the same point. > > > > Password > > > > rm: /root.bush_profile: Read-only file system > > mv: replace '/root/.bush_profile' , overriding mode 0755? > > y takes one > > > > asks to change password > > > > cannot lock the password file; try again later > > passwrd[47]: can't lock password file. > > > > locked into change password > > > > What now????? > > > > I have tried fdisking the disk but it will not remove the partions. to > > start again. > > drive has dos and extended dos (Linux). What is worng here? > > > > Thanks for your time > > Shanta > > > > > Sounds like that disk 5 was bad. Use another disk and rebuild (rawrite2) > disk 5 and try the install from the beginning. As the docs say, most > install problems stem from bad disks.
Hmm - I found this as well - a friend made the various floppies with rawrite2 and started installing. I had to nip up to my room and dd three of them again; is this perhaps a W95 <spit> problem (not detecting the problem)? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward-elect of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]