RE: trouble installing debian -LILO freezing

["Brian Morgan" <bmorgan@greenville.edu>]

An addendum to my 2 previous posts.

I can go all the way through setup: partitioning OK, loading devices OK,
installs and configures base system OK.  I chose not to configure PCMCIA
support this time, and I've stopped getting the "problem extracting Base
System from /target/base2_1.tgz" error message.

It's still, however, freezing up when starting LILO.  It just displays "LI"
and nothing else.  I thought I might try the TECRA disk, but from what I've
read, that doesn't seem to be necessary with slink and above.

I can boot from the boot disk (takes a long time, though).

Any suggestions as to how to boot from hard disk?

Thanks again

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Morgan [mailto:bmorgan@greenville.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 1:08 PM
> To: Debian User Group
> Subject: 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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