debian installation

[John Spooner <jspoone1@optonline.net>]

Iam installing Debian on my system everything went well til I came to
installing the base system. it prompted me for the cd I selected
/dev/hdb atapi (ide) second drive primary controller, chose path,list.
It told me it was extractingfrom
/instmnt/debian/dists/slink/main/disks-386/2.1.11.-1999-09-08/base2-1.tgz.

I see activity from the cdrom but then get a file error message,and
cannot continueItried selecting different cdroms from the disk but they
would not install. how do I tell if the error isfrom not having the
correct cdrom driver, or some other error,and how would I correct it.
                                    Thank you
                                                    John Spooner

jspoone1nospam@optonline.net