Re: Installation Error
Thanks go to the one person who wrote me and suggested
I install from the CD instead of floppies.
Unfortunately, my only access to a CD burner was
through my now-dead windows machine and I don't have
the patience to order CDs through the mail.
So.....I took a guess that the partition I created for
/boot was too small. Maybe right, maybe not, but
after increasing that partition to 200 meg, I was able
to run through the 4 driver diskettes and 11 base
diskettes and now I have a prompt! woohoo!!
On to learning linux and figuring out how to get my
modem, NIC and CD drives running.....
peace,
John
--- John Shepherd <jshep@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I am a long time ms-dos/windows user taking my
> first look at linux. I hope to eventually get
> apache,
> php and mysql running on my home machine so I can
> work
> on creating a mysql application while I wait for my
> university to configure mysql for student use.
> I have been planning for some time to configure
> a
> linux machine "on the side," but I recently had a
> windows crash and decided to try linux now rather
> than
> reconfigure windows yet another time. I hope this
> is
> the right place to post a question like the one that
> follows. I just subscribed to this list, and have
> limited time while at work to read through back
> messages. If I'm in the wrong place, please let me
> know.....
> I am trying to setup debian from floppies on a
> hard-drive with nothing else present. It's a 1.2gig
> drive. I set up a 10meg partition for /boot, a
> 100meg
> swap partition, and all the rest on the third. The
> machine is a pentium II 233 with 640meg ram.
> When the install process is reading data from
> the third driver diskette (created from
> driver-3.bin),
> I get the following error message box:
>
> Error
> Error writing to the output file: Success
>
>
> After selecting "Continue" the next message is:
>
> File Error
> There was a problem installing the Drivers from
> /target/drivers.tgz
>
>
> I have tried several different physical
> diskettes and I get the same message each time. The
> first message is truly perplexing since I am
> obviously
> nowhere near success.
> If someone here can help me, I would be
> grateful for any suggestions.
>
>
> Thanks!
> John Shepherd
>
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