On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Tom Anzalone wrote: > 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:
I'm a bit confused. Did you partition the drive in using DOS's fdisk, or Linux's? Or does this mean you partitioned part of it for DOS using DOS's fdisk and part for Linux using Linux's? If you partitioned it for Linux using DOS's fdisk, and then just reviewed the partitions during the Debian install's partition phase, you might want to delete the Linux partition and recreate it using Linux's [c]fdisk. > > 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] > > > -- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] KC5ENO - Amateur Radio: When all else fails. Linux - Finally! A real OS for the Intel PC!
