At 01:22 PM 12/16/1998 -0500, Sunil N. Goda wrote: > I am very, very new to linux and attempting to install Debian on my PC. >I am having 3 independent problems that I hope someone can help me with. > 1) I have a Mitsumi CD-ROM drive, but when I try to install the drivers >for it during the "install drivers phase" of installation, I keep >getting the message installation failed. It seems like the drive is >supported (there are options for a Mitsumi CD-ROM drive and an Mitsumi >extended drive). I am not sure if it is failing because I am giving it >the wrong command line options (specifying IRQ and IO, which admittedly I >am unsure about) or what.
Sorry, I can't help with this. > 2) I have an SMC 1211TX network card, and I am trying to use the >rtl8139 driver for it, but I keep receiving an installation failed message >as well. I know that someone else has successfully used this driver with >this card, but he was not using Debian. To get it to work, he ended up >hacking the drivers a little and compiling it into the kernel. My >question is: after only the base install, is it possible to compile the >kernel? My original plan was to configure my network card, and then >download packages through ftp, but I may need to compile code before I can >configure my network card. Sorry, I can't help with this. > 3) During the base install, I keep getting a message that says "There >was a problem extracting the base system from /target/base2_0.tgz" after I >have entered all 5 floppy disks with the base system on them (without >receiving any disk errors). I used rawrite2 under a DOS shell in win95 to >write to the disks (I no longer have Win95 on my computer), so what could >the problem be? My suspicion is that one of the floppies had a bad spot on it and so the file got corrupted. I'd suggest recreating the floppies (using different, good floppies) and trying again. > Thank You, > Sunil > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < >/dev/null
