Re: install hamm from Inet (was: Re: install slink from Inet)

1998-12-06 Thread Ben Bucksch 
Ok, you want to do a 0 floppy install.  I don't have a whole lot of

I MUST do a 0 floppy install, lacking a floppy. :-)

experience with those (my bios didn't support the bootable cd's from 2.0
and I don't use win/dos anymore).  Where did you get your install.bat
from?
Used the hamm one.
(ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/hamm/hamm/disks-i386/2.0.10_1998-07-21/in
stall.bat)

Now tried 2 install hamm, also failed. dinstall says: File Error: There is
a problem extracting the Base System from base2_0.tgz.
1. Downloaded using WinNT4.0 base2_0.tgz from
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/hamm/hamm/disks-i386/2.0.10_1998-07-21/
2. Copied to c:\ (Pri-DOS) (together with drv1440.bin, install.bat, linux,
loadlin.exe, md5sum.txt, resc1440.bin, root.bin)
3. Started DOS
4. Ran install.bat
5. Went throught dinstall
6. Selected hd as source, selected the found base2_0.tgz
7. Got the Error-Msg
8. Went 2 tty2
9. cped base2_0.tgz to /target
9a. Tried to use erm gzip, no command found.
10. Selected Mounted as source, selected the found base2_0.tgz
11. 7. Repeated
Repeated 1. - 11.

Any idea?

Re: install hamm from Inet (was: Re: install slink from Inet)

1998-12-06 Thread Brandon Mitchell 
On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, Ben Bucksch wrote:

 Ok, you want to do a 0 floppy install.
 
 I MUST do a 0 floppy install, lacking a floppy. :-)

I start to wonder why this is done now-a-days.  They are cheap and
convienent for many things.  Although, having them may create security
problems for some.  But I'm babling :-)

 Now tried 2 install hamm, also failed. dinstall says: File Error: There is
 a problem extracting the Base System from base2_0.tgz.

I believe the utility is called star.  Try cd'ing to /target and running
star base2_0.tgz from tty2.  Maybe you can get a better error message
than File Error.  I.e. this won't fix your problem, but let us know what
the problem is.

HTH,
Brandon

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