Re: THIRD TIME ... Please help !
Ivan,
From the info supplied, it seems you may have some yet Ill defined
incompatibility between, Linux and your ATAPI CD, since the CD does
work under
Win95. You can try reading another CDROM. just do assess whether
(unlikely) some problem with the Debian CD)
This is only a slight difficulty so far as installation goes. I' ve had
to proceed as follows to install Debian in a minimal partition on a
Win95 dedicated company Laptop. Some of the following is just copied
form the standard Installation directions. Be sure to read them.
1) Make a LX (linux) folder in your WIN95 partition and copy the
following files from your CDROM:
2) resc1440.bin, drv1440.bin, base2_0.tgz, root.bin, linux, install.bat
and
loadlin.exe, Rawrit2.exe, and the Packages file from hamm on the
CD.
Also to make your mouse usefull fast also copy in:
gpm-.deb from Section misc , where - herein indicates the version
info
gpm is GeneralPurposeMouse
libgpm1 from Section libs which is needed by gpm.
Also at this stage I prepare for the powerfull file manager
mc-Midnight Commander, which would additional require:
libcomerr-.deb, from Section Lib
libext2fs-.deb "
libgpmg1-.deb "
slang-.deb Section oldlibs
mc-.deb from Section utils
3) Use Rawrit2 to make the Rescue floppy
4) During the Installation starting from the rescue floppy,
specify when requested that /dev/hda1/lx has the installation files
During the kernel/modules configuration
do specify the vfat module so you can read long file names within your
Win95 partition.
5) When the base installation is done
you'll go through a reboot
some etc
and dselect will be brought up.
Record the DSELECT command but QUIT from that menu.
6) Enter script Today.txt
to automatically record what you are doing in Today.txt,
which is terminated by exit later
It's nice at this point to see things in color by
alias ls="ls --color"
or by editing your .bashrc file by ae .bashrc
followed by a source .bashrc to implement
Do an ls / to see the colorization effect
7) Get the mouse working with
mount /dev/hda1 -t vfat /mnt
dpkg-i /mnt/lx/libgpmg-.deb
dpkg-i /mnt/lx/gpm-.deb
Now you are enabled to Mark with left button by hold&drag
and Copy-onto with right button.
Thus later recording long file names and text blocks won't be a pain.
Do Alt-F2 and login as root to the 2nd console.
ae to start an elementary editor, into which you can copy needed
info.
You get between console screens with Alt-F1, Alt-F2, Alt-F3 etc.
I recommend that now you similarly install mc
via dpkg-i /mnt/lx/(the list for mc stuff above, one at a time).
With mc you can now start looking through your installation in
progress to see what is going. dpkg and dselect use subdirectories of
/var/lib/dpkg to operate.
You can read therein, but DO NOT alter files.
8) See if you can run pppconfig,
pon (provider on line by ppp) after completing your ppp
configuration
and connect with your IP at this point.
You can monitor your ppp attempts with cat /var/log/ppp.log
9) At this point under dselect
You can try doing the rest of the Installation from
a) the cranky CDROM
b) by FTP if your access time isn't costly
or 10
10) within dselect
a) under ACCESS methods, specify Mounted
Specify that the Packages file is in /mnt/lx
b) UPDATE from the Packages file
c) within SELECT, there will already be indicated a large number of
files recommended to enrich your installation.
write them down or Copy into your open ae docment
including the section they are in/
d) when done Save the ae file, say needed.txt
and copy it cp needed.txt /mnt/lx
QUIT dselect
e) reboot and open Win95
f) copy needed files from the CDROM into C:\lx
g) reboot under linux
h) start dselect and install the files from the C:\lx.
The common hardest part of these options is getting used to
dselect
which doesn't at all mind being aborted with Ctrl-C and restarted later.
MarvS
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>Ivan wrote:
>
> At 11:56 AM 18-10-98 +0100, you wrote:
> >
> >> I have recently purchased hamm on cd from dvd rent (Victoria, Australia)
> >> and tried MANY times to install
> >
> >You might want to try making a set of rescue floppies and booting from
> >those...
> >
> >Matthew
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