Re: ran out of input data
Well I broke down last night and went to wal-mart at 3:00am and bought a IDE
cd rom drive. So now everything will install but..........The instructions
in the book that came with the dist. said to make a boot floppy and then
reboot the system. I did that. Now it wants me to type in my root password
and the key board is dead. No action what so ever. In the setup I picked
the default keyboard settings. How can I go back and change them?
Andrew
----- Original Message -----
From: John Pearson <huiac@camtech.net.au>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 8:33 PM
Subject: Re: ran out of input data
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 04:18:14PM -0500, Andrew Martin wrote
> >
> [snip]
> > >
> > > If your CDROM isn't an IDE or SCSI CDROM, or it's connected to
> > > an ISA/PNP card, then you'll definitely need rescue.bin and the
> > > file drivers.tgz, so that you can load the driver required for
> > > your CDROM and continue from there via CDROM. You may also
> > > want to consider putting base2_2.tgz there, so that you
> > > don't have to rely on your CDROM drive to install the base
> > > system.
> > >
> > > > That'll probably get you farther along.
> > > >
> > > > I think that when you run boot.bat from the desktop, Windows uses
> > > > C:\WINDOWS as the working directory instead of
> > > > "C:\WINDOWS\[Profiles\UserName\]DESKTOP", which is why the
installation
> > > > can't find the files that it needs. Putting everything in
"C:\DEBIAN"
> > > > should solve this problem.
> > > >
> > >
> > > You also should try to identify your CDROM type before
> > > proceeding, so that you don't end up sweating over it trying to
> > > figure out which of the half-dozen or so likely drivers is
> > > appropriate while your machine is no longer running Windows,
> > > but not yet running Debian. What make & model is it?
> > >
> [snip]
> > > Ok....I tried to but all of the files in my new folder on c drive. I
also
> > changed my drive letter for the cd in config.sys I was able to boot
from
> > either one but still got the "ran out of input data" message.
> >
> > My cd drive is a Sony CDU31A-02. It isn't a regular IDE drive. It has
it's
> > own card which is also the sound card.
> >
> > I didn't try putting base2_2.tgz in the folder. I was pretty tired when
I
> > did this.
> > Is that the file that contains the kernal? If it is then that should
get me
> > to where I can install drivers for the cd right?
> >
> > Andrew
> >
>
> You will need to load the "cdu31a" driver durinmg installation before
> you can access files from the CDs.
>
> Because of the order that the installer does things, you must
> load both the kernel and drivers from somewhere other than your
> CD; you should then be able to use the CD for installing the
> base system and packages.
>
> The kernel is normally loaded from a rescue floppy, from the CD
> or from your hard disk; you can't use the CD, so you must use
> either a rescue floppy or copy 'rescue.bin' to your hard disk,
> as you have done.
>
> The drivers get loaded either from a set of floppy disks (the
> number of disks depends on the kernel flavour you use), or the
> 'drivers.tgz' file that you have copied to your hard disk.
>
> 'base2_2.tgz' is an archive containing the base system, and you
> *should* be able to access that from you CDROM once you've
> loaded the CDU31a driver module.
>
> If your system is very low on memory (under 6MB installed) then
> you may have trouble running the Debian installer, or booting
> from a standard boot disk; however you have 16MB, so this
> shouldn't be a problem.
>
> It may be that whatever default settings your system uses for
> MS-DOS programs interfere with loadlin's operation; one thing
> you may like to try is exiting to MS-DOS and running the program
> from there rather than running it as a full-screen program
> under Windows:
> - From the Start menu, select Shutdown...
> - Choose Exit to MS-DOS
> - At the DOS prompt, assuming you copied all of the files to c:\debian:
> C> c:
> C> cd \debian
> C> boot.bat
>
> Alternatively, try making boot & root floppies and seeing how
> that works; it is possible that Loadlin has issues with your
> BIOS.
>
>
> HTH,
>
> John P.
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