| From: | Andrew Barker |
| Date: | 5 Mar 2001 at 09:31:53 |
| Subject: | Re: Problems with Linux |
Not good I'm afraid, I'm glad blank CDs only cost 50p each ;-)
I have to install the Base.tgz from my HD. It still won't work directly from
the CD.
Then when I reboot into the section that AA18 covers, it will allow me to
scan the 3 CDs. However sometimes it doesn't work, and cannot find or mount
my CD drive. Interestingly I could mount it manually "mount -t vfat /dev/hdd
/mnt/cdrom"
or something like that. There maybe a but in the kernal or something ?
Oh, I tried AA17+18 again to scan for debian files. BOTH fail, saying it's
not a debian
CD even though they are scaned and indexed ;-(.
The 3 CD's I made scan okay, but when it comes to installing packages, another
problem
occurs ;-(
For instance, I get "perl-5.005-5.005.03-7.1.deb", "gzip: stdin: invalid
compressed data -- format voilated"
I don't know if I need to upgrade gzip or something.
I think I'm going to give it up and try Linux PPC 2000 instead, or Red Hat.
IMHO the Debian distro
and installer suck ;-(
I'll let you know when I find a working one.
Regards
Andy Barker
Ray Tunstall wrote:
> Hello Andrew,
>
> On 01-Mar-01, you wrote:
>
> >AB Well the URL I mentioned, actually gets the ISO's from ftp.proxad.net,
> >AB so I've just downloaded 3 ISO's and will try installing the Dabien
> >AB installation tonight ;-)
> >AB
> >AB Cheers
> >AB
> >AB Andy Barker
> >AB
>
> Well how did you get on?
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Ray Tunstall
>
>
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