Hi, I am trying to install Debian 2.1 on a 486/50/8M/800M machine. The first troubles concerning the cdrom drive (an old sony cdu33a, thanks Bruce, but I also found it in the CDROM howto (sorry for not cecking first ;o))) are solved, but the installation still doesn't go too well. I get a lot of Kernel panics/Oopses (whatever they are) and sometimes the systems just hangs. I think that is related to bad RAM.
But, the problem i get now, is that 'dpkg' cannot install DEBs. When I try the following: dpkg -iB [pkgname] I get an error like: .... Warning: files list file missing, assuming 0 files or directories currently installed. Unpacking [pkgname] ... dpkg: Error processing [pkgname] unable to create files list file for pkg [name]: No such file or directory... It seems like it needs some kind of list file where it stores pkg information. I guess it should be created during updating or installing. Extracting the pkg goes well, but then no pkg info is written. Help me plz TIA Bart