Installing Debian trouble

2001-01-03 Thread Holp, John Mr.
Debian Warriors, I have purchased a book titled Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed, it is about 1120 pages in length and in the back cover is a CD labeled Debain GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed. I have a clean Pentium 255 MHz machine that previously ran SuSE Linux with no problems. To make

Re: Installing Debian trouble

2001-01-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 10:54:19AM -0500, Holp, John Mr. wrote: /instmnt/debain/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/current The system then attempts to extract and then comes up with File error! Sounds like the CD in the book is damaged. I tried one as well that was, then I

Re: Installing Debian trouble

2001-01-03 Thread Jon Pennington
Holp, John Mr. wrote: only a single path is give and it is highlighted; /instmnt/debain/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/current The system then attempts to extract and then comes up with File error! There was a problem extracting the Base System from

Re: Installing Debian trouble

2001-01-03 Thread Juergen Fiedler
At Wed, 03 Jan 2001 10:48:17 -0600, Jon Pennington wrote: Holp, John Mr. wrote: [...] The system then attempts to extract and then comes up with File error! There was a problem extracting the Base System from

RE: Installing Debian trouble

2001-01-03 Thread Holp, John Mr.
] Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 1:47 PM To: Jon Pennington Cc: Holp, John Mr.; 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: Re: Installing Debian trouble At Wed, 03 Jan 2001 10:48:17 -0600, Jon Pennington wrote: Holp, John Mr. wrote: [...] The system then attempts to extract