Re: ran out of input data

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

> Andrew Martin wrote:
> 
> I am trying, to no avail, to install Debian 2.2 thru Windows.  I
> haven't been able to get my CD drive to work since it is not a
> conventional IDE drive.  It attaches to its own sound card.
> Anyhow....
> 
> 1: I have defrag'ed the drive
> 2: I turned off the virtual memory in win 95
> 3: I fips to split the partition
> 4: I rebooted the computer and re-enabled the virtual memory in win95
> 5: I ran scan disk and everything looked ok
> 6: I copyed the following files to the desktop
>     boot.bat
>     linux
>     loadlin.exe
>     root.bin
>        These were all copyed from the install folder on the CD
> 7: I right clicked on the boot.bat file
> 8: Went to properties
> 9: Clicked on the advanced button
> 10: Checked the ms-dos mode box
> 11: Exited the properties menu
> 12: I then double clicked on the MS-DOS shortcut to boot.bat
> 13: It gave me a warning that this was going to run in dos
> 14: I clicked ok and below is what I got
> 
> uncompressing linux
> 
> ran out of input data
> 
> system halted
> 
> I am installing this on a 66mhz 486DX2 with 16MB of memory.  From what
> I have read that should be enough to do it.  Should I quit trying to
> use my current CD drive and just spring for a new IDE drive?  This is
> so frustrating.
> 
> If anyone wants to they can e-mail me direct at
> uncleandy1@bartnet.net
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrew

Can you get to your CD-ROM from DOS only? Rather than trying to run
boot.bat from a Windows icon, exit Windows with the MS-DOS Mode option.
If the DOS drivers for your CD are in CONFIG.DOS (SYS) and AUTOEXEC.DOS
(BAT), you should be able to access your CD-ROM drive directly and
install from there.

Alternatively, do the following:
Create a directory on C: such as "C:\DEBIAN". Place the files you
mentioned in this directory instead of on the desktop. Also, you might
want to include the resc1440.bin and drv1440.bin files. I'm not positive
they're needed, but I THINK one or both of them is needed. Then, as
above, instead of trying to run boot.bat from Windows, exit Windows into
the MS-DOS Mode. Then "cd \debian" to get into the C:\DEBIAN directory,
and then enter "boot".

That'll probably get you farther along.

I think that when you run boot.bat from the desktop, Windows uses
C:\WINDOWS as the working directory instead of
"C:\WINDOWS\[Profiles\UserName\]DESKTOP", which is why the installation
can't find the files that it needs. Putting everything in "C:\DEBIAN"
should solve this problem.