Boot floppy install problem
Hi, I'm new to Debian and I'm sorry if this post should be in the User list..
I have been trying to do a new install from CD's of linux flavor Debian on a
Pentium II.
After several attempts (!) the CDROM is no longer operable, the PPP connection
is not working, and I am booting from the Boot Floppy I made during the install
(or rather from a copy of the Boot Floppy on the hd). So I can't access the Net
or the CDROM.
In the info that comes up on screen during Boot the system detects the CDROM
hdd: GCR-8521b, ATAPI CDROM drive
but the CDROM drive won't work. There does not appear to be /dev/cdrom in the
system.
Later on in thE Boot info, modprobe can't locate char-major-10-135 (the Real
Time Clock) but the time is still set anyway.
Then we get to
Mounting local file systems...
and the message is
nothing was mounted
and finally on
Starting Xprint servers
I get the warning
##WARNING: can't find /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/encodings-dir
Then the system is booted and I am at the Prompt.
If I go to base-config to try and configure the PPP to connect to the Net to
get the packages I get as far as
"Do you want to use PPP connection?"
then I get this message
"Filehandle STDIN opened only for output
at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm"
and then the config gets stuck.
i looked in /etc/chatstrings/provider and there are no values for #ispname or
#isppassword... is that OK?
I am keen to use Debian so I hope I can sort this out!
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
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