I had sent an earlier message regarding installation problems and did receive some messages back but was unable to read them. So I will try this again. (Thanks to everyone that did reply) I have tried to install Debian numerous times on my machine:
P133, 128meg, 8.4 ide, 2.5 ide (install drive for Debian), and a 1 gb scsi drive, 40X cdrom ide, 144 floppy drive. I have installed Red Hat successfully on the 1 gb drive and I use system commander to boot between Windows 98 and Linux. I installed the 2.5 gb drive to install Debian and partitioned it using dos in a 2 gb main and 500 mg swap. I tried to install Debian off the CD (version 2.0.2) and was able to boot, partition and intialize the drive, pick the keyboard type but when I go to install the kernel the installation process says: Starting to extract Rescue disk Then it blows up and gives and error that extraction of the Rescue disk failed (there is a message in the background but the windowed message covers it) and that is that. So I tried booting off a rescue floppy and then installing off the CD but the same error. I then downloaded the disk set off the web. Made a floppy disk installation set and tried it once again. Guess what, same place same error! I would appreciate any help at this time. I have checked the installation instructions numerous times thinking I missed something as well as checking this mailing list and web site for help. I would really like to get this installed. Thanks for any help. Tom Anzalone [EMAIL PROTECTED]