Re: Installation woes
Kent,
Thanks for the reply. I did intially partition the drive using Opendos
7.2 fdisk program. I will try using Linux's fdisk this time and let you
know how it works.
Thanks,
Tom
Date sent: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 09:23:06 -0600 (CST)
From: Kent West <westk@heir.acu.edu>
To: Tom Anzalone <tanzalon@harrisassoc.com>
Copies to: Debian User List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Installation woes
> On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Tom Anzalone wrote:
>
> > I had sent an earlier message regarding installation problems and
> > did receive some messages back but was unable to read them. So
> > I will try this again. (Thanks to everyone that did reply) I have tried
> > to install Debian numerous times on my machine:
> >
> > P133, 128meg, 8.4 ide, 2.5 ide (install drive for Debian), and a 1 gb
> > scsi drive, 40X cdrom ide, 144 floppy drive.
> >
> > I have installed Red Hat successfully on the 1 gb drive and I use
> > system commander to boot between Windows 98 and Linux. I
> > installed the 2.5 gb drive to install Debian and partitioned it using
> > dos in a 2 gb main and 500 mg swap. I tried to install Debian off
> > the CD (version 2.0.2) and was able to boot, partition and intialize
> > the drive, pick the keyboard type but when I go to install the kernel
> > the installation process says:
>
>
> I'm a bit confused. Did you partition the drive in using DOS's fdisk, or
> Linux's? Or does this mean you partitioned part of it for DOS using DOS's
> fdisk and part for Linux using Linux's?
>
> If you partitioned it for Linux using DOS's fdisk, and then just reviewed
> the partitions during the Debian install's partition phase, you might want
> to delete the Linux partition and recreate it using Linux's [c]fdisk.
>
>
> >
> > Starting to extract Rescue disk
> >
> > Then it blows up and gives and error that extraction of the Rescue
> > disk failed (there is a message in the background but the windowed
> > message covers it) and that is that. So I tried booting off a rescue
> > floppy and then installing off the CD but the same error. I then
> > downloaded the disk set off the web. Made a floppy disk
> > installation set and tried it once again. Guess what, same place
> > same error! I would appreciate any help at this time. I have
> > checked the installation instructions numerous times thinking I
> > missed something as well as checking this mailing list and web
> > site for help. I would really like to get this installed. Thanks for
> > any help.
> >
> > Tom Anzalone
> > Tanzalon@harrisassoc.com
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> Kent West
> kent.west@infotech.acu.edu
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>
>
Tom Anzalone
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