| From: | Ray Tunstall |
| Date: | 9 Mar 2001 at 23:08:22 |
| Subject: | Re: Problems with Linux |
Hello Andrew
On 05-Mar-01, you wrote:
> 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
I got my Debian CD's from www.cheeplinux.com they cost £12.99 including
postage but binary-2 disk had errors, I phoned them and they put a new one
in the post which I received the next morning, which I thought was pretty
good.
Since installing (which took about 4 hoursor more) it said there were errors
and a list of 21 names and I was supposed to fix them and run [I]nstall
again, but I can't find any documentation on how to fix them. Anyone know
where I get the informataion to fix them?
Another problem it couldn't find my modem, even though I'd connected it to
the serial port rather than my silversurfer. I have found drivers for
ioblitz but not silversurfer. Does anyone know of a driver for the
silversurfer?
Regards,
Ray Tunstall
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