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- To: Michael M Ayers <mikeyda@gte.net>
- Subject: Re: H E L P !!!!
- From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 00:45:32 -0800
- Message-id: <19981116004532.D2489@kitenet.net>
- In-reply-to: <364FE62B.246CB050@gte.net>; from Michael M Ayers on Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 12:45:31AM -0800
- References: <364FE62B.246CB050@gte.net>
Hmm. I don't install debian often - I've only done it 4 times, and I never
ran into this. I'd suggest you get on the debian-user mailing list
(debian-user@lists.debian.org), and post about this. You could also contact
Enrique Zanardi <sr1-boot-floppies@debian.org> to get in direct touch with
the people who make the debian install disks.
Michael M Ayers wrote:
> Hi Joey
>
> My name is Mike Ayers ,,,
> I just kind of one of those "old hackers" left over from the old "bit
> Basher days"
> I like to keep my self busy learning new things and trying new operating
> systems.
> I have a little experience with "unix" about enough to make myself real
> dangerous..
> I have been trying to load linux on one of my computers to compare it
> to other operating systems !!
> I was impressed with the Unix system that I was involved with but that
> seems like it
> was at least 400 years ago --- I have forgotten a lot of the unix
> command set , but some of it is coming back !! goofing around with this
> linux !!
>
> My problem is I'm loading the system using 1.44 floppies and everything
> goes fine
> until loading the base floppies ---- he seams like he loads them O.K.
> and then he
> uncompressed the 2.0 base and the he goes right back telling me that I
> need to install
> base --- as far as I can tell it looks like he installed the base but he
> will not let me configure the base ?? he keeps telling me it need to be
> installed ??
>
> If you know the installation steps I Get to as follows :
>
> 7.14 Install the Base System
>
> Select the Install the Base System menu item. You'll be offered a menu
> of drives to use to read the base floppies. Select the appropriate
> drive. If you choose to install from floppy disk feed in the Base1, 2,
> 3, ... as requested by the program. If one of the base floppies is
> unreadable, you'll have to create a replacement floppy and feed all
> floppies into the system again. Once the floppies have all been read,
> the system will install the files it had read from the floppies. This
> could take 10 minutes or more on slow systems, less on faster ones.
>
> I can't seam to get to the next step ??
> Have you got any goo Ideas ??
> as I say he seams to read the floppies with no problems and then he
> seams to uncompressed
> the base with out any problems ??
> I have kind of run out of ideas !!
> Sure would appreciate some Ideas ??
>
> Thank You !! Much
> Mikey...a
--
see shy jo
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