RE: trouble installing debian (any version)
I've now tried it again with a completely different set of slink disks with
the same results "problem extracting Base System from /target/base2_1.tgz"
Is it possible that it doesn't have enough swap space to extract? I created
a 50 meg swap file during setup. Maybe this doesn't apply. I'm not sure.
Brian Morgan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Morgan [mailto:bmorgan@greenville.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 12:17 PM
> To: Debian User Group
> Subject: trouble installing debian (any version)
>
>
> I'm having trouble installing debian on my p75 generic brand
> laptop (trying
> slink and potato). I have gone through setup, installed drivers and base
> system, but it gives an error:
>
> "There was a problem extracting the Base System from
> /target/base2_1.tgz" at
> the end of installation. When I reboot, it seems to freeze on LILO.
>
> Is there something I'm doing wrong? Could it be a bad disk in the mix of
> things? It doesn't seem to report any bad disks, but who knows?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian Morgan
> bmorgan@greenville.edu
>
>
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