For rescue.bin, you should point right back at the floppy!!! You are not supposed to untar base.tar.gz or drivers.tar.gz, even if you put them on floppies! There are two ways to create the floppy versions of these: The Hard Way: dd if=some512byteheader of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1 dd if=base.tar.gz of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=2879 seek=1 skip=0 (next floppy) dd if=other512byteheader of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1 dd if=base.tar.gz of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=2879 seek=1 skip=2879 (next floppy) dd if=third512byteheader of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1 dd if=base.tar.gz of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=2879 seek=1 skip=5758 (etc) The easy way: Get the floppy images from your nearest Debian mirror. In either case, make sure the flavor of all the first phase files match each other, the directories contain different sets of images for different hardware configurations and floppy sizes and the names are not too intuitive for my taste, so read install.txt for the long explanation. For the configuration you choose, you need either (not all) of the following boot floppy + root floppy + drivers floppies + base floppies or boot floppy + root floppy + drivers.tar.gz + base.tar.gz or bootable CD-ROM + drivers.tar.gz + base.tar.gz or loadlin.exe + kernel + root floppy image + drivers.tar.gz + base.tar.gz All that said, I have only tried the second option, with the two .tar.gz files on a CD-ROM with the standard layout, but none of the packages, just the boot stuff (the CD is bootable but the PC tested was too old to boot from CD). Hope it helps Jakob On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 03:20:39PM +0200, Theo Bierman wrote: > Hi, just tried to in stall debian for the first time. I > downloaded everything on to two small hard drives (no cdrom ). > I have made my rescue.bin and root.bin an d it goes into > installation fine, all goes well from choosing the keyboard to > pa rtion the hard disk but when it's time to install it asks > for three different lo cations ie floppy/cdrom or hard drive. > On hdc1 i have all the dir's containing t he extras > (net/comms/x11 etc). On hdd1 I have everything else ie > base.tgz, drive rs.tgz, rescue.bin etc. It asks for the path > to rescue.bin and drivers.tgz and w hen i point it to the > correct place it tells me to get "lost". I have mounted bo th > hdd1 and hdc1 to /target/mnt/hd* and also /mnt/hd* and it > still doe snot work . I can't use floppies because to untar > all that stuff onto disks from drivers.t gz is a mission. How > else can I get the installation going. I have also created the > path /dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/ and > copied rescue.bi n here, but this does not seem to help. I'm > obviously doing something VERY WRONG but I don't know what > (probably because I come from a redhat background). How c an I > get the installation going? Thanks -- > > Theo Bierman > Customer Implementation Team > UUNET S.A., a WorldCom Company > Tel: +27 11 235-6621 > Fax: +27 11 235-6501 > E-Mail: theo@za.uu.net > Customer Service Centre: 08600 UUNET / 08600 88638 > http://www.uunet.co.za > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > -- This message is hastily written, please ignore any unpleasant wordings, do not consider it a binding commitment, even if its phrasing may indicate so. Its contents may be deliberately or accidentally untrue. Trademarks and other things belong to their owners, if any.
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