Re: Install problem
Quoting Clyde Wilson (clydew@clydew.net):
> I think your tgz files need to be on a linux partition.
That's just plain wrong. They can be anywhere that your installation
kernel can get to them.
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Owens, Jerry wrote:
>
> > I am trying to install Debian GNU/Linux version 2.1 on a
> > Compaq Deskpro PII 233. I have downloaded all of the required files from
> > the ftp site and I am using a boot disk to install Debian. The base file
> > (base2_1.tgz) is on the dos partition. The install goes fine until it
> > tries to unzip the base file. Then I get an error stating that "There
> > was a problem extracting the Base System from
> > /instmnt/linux/debian/base2_1.tgz.
I don't think you're alone here, though I don't recall noticing
what the most frequent reasons were.
> > I have downloaded this several times
> > from different sites to make sure I didn't get a bad copy with no luck.
You can check your copy's integrity by gunzip-ing it yourself.
Switch to VC2 with Alt-F2, copy it somewhere, then gunzip it.
If you're left with a tar file, then the copying process was not
corrupted and you can look for the solution elsewhere.
e.g. (untested)
cp path-to-your-file/base2_1.tgz .
gunzip base2_1.tgz
ls
(Copying it prevents you altering the original. IIRC at this
stage . is / so it doesn't matter if you add a tarfile.)
Cheers,
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