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Re: installation failure



On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:16:41 +0200, Alexander Petrov wrote:

> I tried to install Lenny on Toshiba laptop which has Windows Vista 
> using network installation (netinst cd). It booted normally and after
> downloading some files suddenly stopped. The system failed to boot. I
> started it from a live cd  and found that the ext3 filesystem was
> created and there were the basic directories -etc,usr,var. There was no
> boot loader. I installed grub from the live cd and managed to load
> vmlinuz and initrd but I don't know how to proceed with the
> installation.
> 
> Any ideas will be welcomed.

Now that you are still in a early install stage, I would reinstall all 
again, from scratch.

The error could have come from varios sources, maybe the remote host (or 
your ISP) was having hiccups. You can retry the installation with the CD 
or DVD media source to discard any connection issue.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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