Re: Installer Woes Redux

[Joseph A Nagy Jr <joseph_a_nagy_jr@charter.net>]

Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote:
> Okay. I've made it to the point where I can choose a method of install. 
> For some reason I can't mount the CD I've used up until this point, and 
> even then, it gets stuck on a "corrupted" package. I've used this CD 
> before, there shouldn't be anything wrong with it. OTOH, I can also do a 
> network install. Only problem is I don't know of any servers other then 
> the default server. It verifies everything up until libstdc++x.x (which 
> it says it can't download), then backs out of the install, moving back 
> to the option of
>
> Next: Install the Base System
> Alternate: Edit Kernel Boot Parameters
>
> Suggestions?
>
>
> BTW, Even after 12 hours, it wasn't done checking for bad blocks. At 
> around 14 million blocks (11:30 pm last night) I went to bed.
I'd like to thank everyone for suggestions and help. I finally got the
base system installed and am not booting from floppy (I even installed
bfs2.4 so I could have the ext3 fs, which also means /dev/hdb1 is
recognized by the OS! go me!).