>From: Imran Geriskovan[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Hi, > >I've installed Debian several times on several machines but got stuck with a >problem on one machine. > >Problem is as follows: > >I follow all the steps that dinstall suggest me (i.e. Initialize a Linux >Partion, Install device drivers, Conf Network, install etc......). >When it comes to "Install Base System" dinstall ask me the path of >"base2_0.tgz", I provide it, then it works a while (seems like installation >in >progress). But after then it drops back to dinstall menu with >"Next: Install Base system" highlighted. No other "Next" s available. > >I manually select "Configure Base System". But at this time it says that >"You have to install Base System to configure." :( > >Again I choose "Install Base System" but same thing happens. > >At the end I give up and reboot the machine with a boot floopy for the same >partition. It boots and mounts /. However it ends up with blank screen with >a prompt "#"!. Nothing else. > >Issuing "ls" displays the directories and files. (bin, usr, home, dev..) >Seems like files are installed. But no configuration is done. (Not a >surprise. >Huh..) > >Any ideas?
I had almost this exact problem on a machine with no CD. I had downloaded the minimal set of files from the Debian FTP site onto the machine's hard disk in a DOS (Windows 95) partition, and installed from that. I got exactly the same symptoms as you. I couldn't fix this, no matter what I tried. However, when I got hold of a CD shared across the network and transferred the same files from the CD (FWIW, it was the CheapBytes Debian 2.0 Binary CD), the install worked fine. I have NO IDEA what the difference was... Whether this is relevant to you, I'm not sure... Paul.