Tony, et al, I just went through problems with the CD-ROM during install myself. I was trying to install the Debian O'Reilly\SGI\VA Linux distribution. The boot kernel didn't recognize my SCSI CD-ROM. I was afraid I was going to have to make lots of floppies to install the base system. Installing from floppies is an activity I'd like to forget.
The work around was "installation from a DOS partition" using "loadin.exe". I copied the following files from the Debian CD-ROM on to a Iomega Zip drive (SCSI): resc1440.bin drv1440.bin base2_1.tgz root.bin linux loadlin.exe install.bat Please note: all of this is discussed in Section 5.3 - "Installing Debian GNU/Linux For Intel x86" which I believe is called "install.txt" on the CD-ROM. The authors also state these files are available from the "nearest Debian FTP mirror". I booted with a "pure" MS-DOS 5 (no Windows versions, please) floppy! As all my other drives were partitioned for fat32 or Linux, this old operating system saw the zip drive as "C:". I then ran "install.bat" from C: The content of install.bat is "loadlin linux root=/dev/ram initrd=root.bin". All went very smoothly and my SCSI CD-ROM was recognized after the base system was loaded and the system went through it's install reboot. The secret on an install from a DOS partition is just that - make sure it's DOS and not a Windows version of DOS (it took me all Saturday morning to learn that lesson!). Rob -----Original Message----- From: Homer (Tony) Stavely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Date: Saturday, April 29, 2000 2:22 PM Subject: install problem >Going through the install process with Debian 2.1r4 on two new cdroms, I >get as far as Install the Base System. Some error develops while >extracting base2_1.tgz from the cd and I have so far found no way around >it. I've been looking forward to trying Debian so I hope there's an easy >fix for this problem. Any suggestions? > >Tony >-- >Homer (Tony) Stavely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Professor of Psychology >Keene State College >Keene, New Hampshire, USA > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >