Install floppy boot failure
Dear Debian Development Debuggers,
(couldn't resist that)
I am attempting to install Debian 1.1 on my system. I currently run
Linux
1.2.8 (an older SlackWare distribution), so I know that the system is
capable of running Linux.
I've written the boot, root, & base floppies as prescribed, but every
time
I try to boot I get error messages as follows:
boot: <cr>
Loading...........
Uncompressing Linux...
invalid compressed format (err=2)
-- System Halted
I've tried using a different floppy, erasing (dd if=/dev/zero...) and
reformatting the floppies, formatting on different machines with
different
utilites (Norton format, DOS 6.x format, Weeners '95 format), and I've
tried re-downloading the boot image from a variety of sources.
All with the same result.
I also tried entering boot parameters to specify my SCSI & ethernet
cards. This resulted in a different error message:
incomplete literal tree
Well, where do I go from here?
Chris Hertel -)-----
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Christopher R. Hertel -)----- University of Minnesota
crh@nts.umn.edu Networking and Telecommunications Services
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