Installing Debian trouble

["Holp, John Mr." <holpj@nwc.navy.mil>]

Debian Warriors,

	I have purchased a book titled Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed, it is
about 1120 pages in length and in the back cover is a CD labeled Debain
GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed.

	I have a clean Pentium 255 MHz machine that previously ran SuSE
Linux with no problems.  To make things as clean as possible I am trying to
do a complete install saving nothing from past activities.

	I step through the installation taking the defaults, doing nothing
out of the ordinary, when I get to the following the installation stops
working:

	Next: Install the Base System	I input <Enter>

	Please select the medium you will use to install the system 	I
arrow down to cdrom : CD-ROM drive <Enter>

	Choose the type of your CD interface	I arrow down to /dev/hdc :
ATPI (IDE), first drive on the secondary controller
						I input <Enter>

	Please place the Debian CD-ROM in the CD-ROM drive		The
CD that came with the book is already in the
	
CD-ROM drive so I input <Enter>

	Please choose the path inside the CD-ROM where the Debian archive
resides	the following is highlighted

	/debain		I select Ok and <Enter>

	system comes back with;

	Please select the directory containing a file base2_1.tgz that you
will use to install the Base System

	The following is highlighted

	list	:	Choose from a list of all Archive paths

	"building a list of archive paths"

	Please select the directory that you will use to install the Base
System from.

	only a single path is give and it is highlighted;

	/instmnt/debain/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/current

	The system then attempts to extract and then comes up with "File
error!"

	There was a problem extracting the Base System from
/instmnt/debian/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/current/base2_1.tgz


Now has anyone out there used this Debian distribution?  I am attempting to
use the most basic installation with the CD that came in the back of the
book but cannot make it work.

I have read that Debian can be troublesome to install, but I am selecting
the basic defaults and recording all of the steps I used to get where I am -
have over two pages of hand written notes on the questions asked by the
system along with my responses/answers, and then things stop working !!!!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

John D. Holp