Installer fails to "Install base system"
> Hi,
>
> This is my first attempt to install Linux ever, and this from the CD
> coming with the book i just bought : Installing Debian GNU/Linux (version
> 2.1). I know it is an old version, but it should work anyway, no ?
> I have a Fujitsu laptop with 32 Mg of RAM, a CDROM drive, a floppy drive and a
> 4Gb harddrive
> which i repartitioned using PartitionMagic 7.0 (i kept 2Gb for Windows 98
> on hda1 and created a Linux and a Linux swap partitions on hda5 and hda6
> on the remaining space, the swap partition being a little bigger than
> the 128Mb allowed by this version of Debian).
>
> Since i wasn't able to boot from the CDROM, i used rawrite2 to make a
> rescue diskette and a drivers diskette (i used the tecra version for
> both, 'cause i read somewhere it suited laptops better). My problem
> now, is that when i boot with the rescue diskette and try to install
> Debian, the installer blocks on the "Install base system"
> part. When asked to say where to install the base system from, i first tried
> by
> referring to the CDROM (hdc), and later to the harddisk (on which i
> copied, from the CDROM, the directory on which resides the base2_1.tgz
> file). Alas, the installer, after telling me it was
> decompressing the file, proposes me, again, to install the base system
> ! To be sure, i tried to pass to the next step "Configure base system",
> but the installer replied : "To configure the base system, you have to
> install it first".
>
> I have no idea what to try next, except asking the Debian User Community
> !
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Fred (flemire@cam.org)
>
> P.S. By the way, can someone explain me how the kernel code can be
> stored on the first 1024 cylinders of a disk ? The figure 3.1 of the
> book doesn't help me much. 1024 x 16 x 63 x 512 equals ruffly half a
> gigabyte, no ? Then how can the partitioning of the figure 3.1 resolve
> the problem, since all partitions it shows have more than half a
> gigabyte ?
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