package: installer version: 3.1
I sent an email about an hour ago regarding the failure of the Debian 3.1 (sarge) installer. It was ignored because I didn't have the correct header format. It went into the junk file. I hope this works. the packages will not load because of disk errors. As explained previously I loaded the linux distribution on a machine which was running XP for about 3 years without error. I completely erased XP and loaded Linux. I got the error and went back and cleaned and reformatted the disk . I had no errors when I reformatted the disk. It was clean and as far as I can tell had no disk errors. Again I loaded 3.1 and the basic system loaded ok and when it came to loading the packages I got the disk errors again. Here is what I got: Drive ready seek complete error Status 0x51 error 0x30 It also listed the sectors involved in the error. I don't know what to do next. Do I buy another hard disk? I think its a software distrubution error but I since this is my first attempt to load Debian I don't know for sure. Could it be the CD ROMS that I bought? Help!!!!! Thanks Gerry
