On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 03:16:48PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 06:02:35PM -0500, Josh Kuperman wrote: > > I have a Dell Dimension XPS 466, with 64M of RAM and two old SCSI > > disks. I have tried downloading CD-images from ftp.eecs.umich.edu and > > using the cd-image making program. After that failed I decided that > > there was a problem with the images or my CD writer so I purchase the > > current CDs for Slink from LinuxMall.
Perhaps I should have added that it has two disks. A small 240M hard drive that I used as the boot device and a 13GB hard disk with the other partitions. > > > > In ALL cases, regardless of the source the outcome was the same. I > > would created the floppy image from resc1440.bin with raw_write2. I > > would start the process at the boot prompt with "linux > > aha152x=0x340,11,7". I would go through installing and everything > > would work until I got to the step "Install the base system". In all > > cases this would end with the error message: "There was a problem > > extracting the Base System from > > /instmnt/debian/dists/slink/main/disk_i386/2.1.8-1999-02-22/base2_1.tgz > > I have no idea what is going on. > > I ran in to a similar problem installing Potato from floppies. It turned > out I hadn't made my / partition large enough. Since you have two disks, > make the root partition fairly large on one of the disks. It'll be easy > enough to move the partitions around with cp, tar or cpio after you get > the base system installed. So the question is what are the minimum/maximum sizes for a partition. I can't imaging 240M being too small for root. Is it? I had a 3GB partition for /usr which I tried to set under 2G but the disk partitioning software resulted in a larger than 2G when I set it to 2000M. > > > The install program appears to have no trouble with the CD. I have > > managed to install an old version previously (but I couldn't find > > dhcpcd on the old hamm cd and I figured I'd be better off with the > > current CD set anyhow.) > > > > I have absolutely no ideas. If it couldn't access the CD or extract > > files I should have had a problem long before I got to that step. All > > the earlier initializations, installing the kernel and system modules > > worked. (Is there a way to tell the install program to mount two CDs - > > I have two CD drives on the SCSI chain - but that is another issue.) -- Josh Kuperman [EMAIL PROTECTED]