>===== Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===== >Hi, > > > I am a long time ms-dos/windows user taking my >first look at linux. I hope to eventually get apache, >php and mysql running on my home machine so I can work >on creating a mysql application while I wait for my >university to configure mysql for student use. > I have been planning for some time to configure a >linux machine "on the side," but I recently had a >windows crash and decided to try linux now rather than >reconfigure windows yet another time. I hope this is >the right place to post a question like the one that >follows. I just subscribed to this list, and have >limited time while at work to read through back >messages. If I'm in the wrong place, please let me >know..... > I am trying to setup debian from floppies on a >hard-drive with nothing else present. It's a 1.2gig >drive. I set up a 10meg partition for /boot, a 100meg >swap partition, and all the rest on the third. The >machine is a pentium II 233 with 640meg ram. > When the install process is reading data from >the third driver diskette (created from driver-3.bin), >I get the following error message box: > >Error >Error writing to the output file: Success > > >After selecting "Continue" the next message is: > >File Error >There was a problem installing the Drivers from >/target/drivers.tgz > > > I have tried several different physical >diskettes and I get the same message each time. The >first message is truly perplexing since I am obviously >nowhere near success. > If someone here can help me, I would be >grateful for any suggestions. > > >Thanks! >John Shepherd
I haven't seen anyone answer this post, so I wanted to let you know that someone at least saw it; I just don't know what the solution is. What I'd try though, is to not have a /boot partition at all, and just have a large / (root) partition at the front of the drive, just for testing purposes (I wouldn't leave it like that, but this might give a clue as to what's causing the failure). But like I say, I really don't know . . . . Kent
