Re: FWD: Can't Get Past "Install the Base System"
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> From: "Dave L. Thompson" <DLThompson@leeclerk.org>
> Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 14:42:18 -0500
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> Subject: Can't Get Past "Install the Base System"
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> I am a newbie Debian installer, and I'm installing Debian on a Dell PC
> with the seven CD's I downloaded from the Debian site. I have been
> unable to get past the "Install the Base System" portion. I've
> confirmed that dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Release is present on the
> installation CD, but anytime I try to use it, I get the following error:
>
>
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> "The installation program couldn't find any directory containing a file
> basedebs.tar or dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Release."
The last time I saw this, the user had booted from some CD other than
CD #1 and still had that CD in the drive. The base files are on CD #1,
so be sure that's the one you have in the drive.
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