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Re: installation problem



I have only the following error (ALT_F3) error in archive format !

What can I do ? How can I change the archive format ?

Serena
-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Sass <bsass@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>
To: Serena Peters <speters@ulg.ac.be>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org>;
debian-testing@lists.debian.org <debian-testing@lists.debian.org>
Date: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 8:34 PM
Subject: Re: installation problem


On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Serena Peters wrote:

> So I try to install debian with a CD-ROM
>
> I´ve just make partition on my hard disk and all the partition are mounted
!
> So during the installation, the software propose to install the operating
> system kernel and modules.
> When I have "Select Installation Medium", I choose /cdrom which is on
> /dev/hdc.
> After that, the following message : "Path where Debian archive reside
> /debian", and after "list : Choose from a list of All Archives Paths" ...
> When I accept the path, after 1 minute, I receive the following error :
> FLOPPY ERROR : The attempt to extract the drivers floppy failed !

Switch to the second vt (ALT-F2) and look at the error messages, you
will probably find that the installation prog is looking someplace other
than where you think it is.


later,

Bruce


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