Re: * Installation of woody fails (corrupted deb)
i suggest you check your partition sizes and initialize the partitions
when configuring things. i had this problem last week. i even choked at
the same file. after i initialized the partitions, things went fine
(although, i did use floppies vs. the cd but this should work).
nate wrote:
>
> Andrew MAIER said:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am a first time installer of Debian (but not of Linux), and I yesterday
> > tried to install Woody on an alpha. Booting from a CD went fine I
> > configured keyboard, disk and network and everything seemed to work fine
> > until the package the installer tried to install
> > console-data_1999.08.29-24_all.deb. This failed because the installer
> > claimed that this package is corrupted.
>
> I would check the integrity of the file by mounting the ISO and
> extracting the deb to see if its ok. on linux this would usually
> be accomplished by mount -t iso9660 /mnt/mountpoint filename.iso -o loop
>
> on other platforms ..don't know off the top of my head.
>
> on debian, theres a package called alien which can be used to
> convert deb/tgz/rpm/more? to each other's formats. quickest way
> would be to use it to convert to tgz to see if it can convert..
> there is a manual way to extract the debian packages, but I
> forget how and searching google doesn't come up with much
>
> I downloaded one of the netinst bootable cds, burned it in
> cdrecord, and every system I tried it in it didn't boot, so
> I wouldn't be suprised if your ISO had a bad file ..
>
> nate
>
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