RE: trouble installing debian -LILO freezing
Thanks, Andrew. That took care of it. After that, I booted from the rescue
disk, configured pcmcia support, and I was on my way.
Brian
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Martin Adrian Cater
> [mailto:amacater@galactic.greenville.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 3:52 PM
> To: Brian Morgan
> Subject: Re: trouble installing debian -LILO freezing
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 03:25:11PM -0600, Brian Morgan wrote:
> > 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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> Try opening a shell and running the command
>
> lilo -l
>
> which will force lilo to look at the disk in a linear address format.
>
> This is usually an issue with larger disks than 504MB IIRC.
>
> Andy
>
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