Frédéric L. MIR wrote:
<snip> 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 forboth, 'cause i read somewhere it suited laptops better).
Not all laptops . . . .
Was the installer able to find the CDROM? Was it able to find the base2_1.tgz file and just not uncompress it, or what?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),
Did you copy it to the Windows partitions or to the Linux partitions? I would think you'd want to have it on the Win partitions; I'm not sure how well the uncompression process works when the compressed file is on the destination partition.and later to the harddisk (on which i copied, from the CDROM, the directory on which resides the base2_1.tgz file).
Does Win98 allow you to boot into "MS-DOS" by pressing F8 just after the POST, like Win95 allows? If so, you might want to put the base2_1.tgz and the rescue.tgz and drivers.tgz files on the Win partitions, boot into DOS and use loadlin.exe to start the install.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 !
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