"Amanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I have just started to install Debian Linux. I don't think I got past first | base. | After making my floppies I rebooted with the resc1440.bin disk firmly in the | drive. On the first screen I pressed Enter heres what I got : | boot: | Loading root.bin..................... | Loading linux.................. | Uncompressing Linux........... | crc error | --System halted | | I have read heard about problems with bad floppies. The same happend with | the 3rd floppy. I bought a brand new pack of floppies today so I would be | less likely to have a problem ( they are even branded ). | Is this a common problem. | Machine is a HP Vectra. P200 with 64MB Ram. | Regards
I don't know how common it is but it happened to me. After going through about 3 floppies trying to fix the problem I bit the bullet and installed md5 on my IRIX machine, where I was building the floppies. After checking the floppy images with md5 I found that one of them had been corrupted, I guess during the ftp download. So, it wasn't the floppy, but the image itself that was bad. I downloaded that particular image again, checked it with md5, made the new floppy and it worked like a champ! Just something to check. Good Luck, Gary -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null