Re: I have problem with base file installation
Hi Philippe,
You either have some no-so-good floppies, or maybe your floppy drive is
out of spec.
Seeing that you have access to a *nix box, I would use dd to create the
disks and then use dd and md5sum to check them. That way you will _know_
that they are good before you start the install.
Check the files against md5sum.txt before you start.
md5sum -c md5sum.txt
Then, to check a _full_ floppy, use something like:
dd if=/dev/fd0 bs=16k | md5sum
Compare the answer with the md5sum of the file itself.
For a partly filled floppy, use something like:
dd if=/dev/fd0 count=1 bs=644000 | md5sum
where 644000 is the size of the original file. (Just an example.)
You might need to remove the floppy from the drive after writing it and
then replace it to stop the answer coming from memory.
Of course, using floppies for the base disks is a last resort. If you can
put base2_0.tgz on an accessible partition you can use it directly or you
can access it via NFS.
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On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Philippe BARBELET wrote:
> Hi Debian Linux Users,
>
> I have loaded from ftp.debian.org site all files to install the Linux
> base on a
> PC. All was good but...
>
> The installation program read the 5 floppy disks from "base-1" to
> "base-5"
> but at the end it wrote "Error: checksum is not good".
>
> I built the 5 disks again as it was written whith the rawrite2 program
> and whith an other
> unix system whith dd command. I had the same result.
> So I reload the files again from the site and I built again the medias.
> It's still wrong.
>
> Do you know this problem and the solution to apply ?
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
>
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