Installation Problems with Installing the base system
Hello. I am trying to install Linux for the first time and I am having
a problem when it comes to "Installing the base system."
1. I downloaded the files from
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/hamm/disks-i386/current .
2. Copied them to a hard drive that was already partitioned with 4
partitions (2 - ext2 and 2 - swp)
3. Ran install
4. Everything went fine untill installing the base system (I skipped
network config. as I will be using ppp)
I get an error that I cannot read because dinstall is covering it up. I
think it says something about invalid archive format.
I even created floppies and tried, but had a checksum error on the 4th
disk 3 times with different disks.
I have compared the dates and files sizes of what I downloaded with what
is out on the network and they match.
Does anyone have any suggestions for a very frustrated programmer?
Brooke Hedrick
Programmer
brooke.hedrick@rainhail.com
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