Dear Debian Development Debuggers, (couldn't resist that)
I am attempting to install Debian 1.1 on my system. I currently run Linux 1.2.8 (an older SlackWare distribution), so I know that the system is capable of running Linux. I've written the boot, root, & base floppies as prescribed, but every time I try to boot I get error messages as follows: boot: <cr> Loading........... Uncompressing Linux... invalid compressed format (err=2) -- System Halted I've tried using a different floppy, erasing (dd if=/dev/zero...) and reformatting the floppies, formatting on different machines with different utilites (Norton format, DOS 6.x format, Weeners '95 format), and I've tried re-downloading the boot image from a variety of sources. All with the same result. I also tried entering boot parameters to specify my SCSI & ethernet cards. This resulted in a different error message: incomplete literal tree Well, where do I go from here? Chris Hertel -)----- . -- Christopher R. Hertel -)----- University of Minnesota [EMAIL PROTECTED] Networking and Telecommunications Services
