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Re: Debian Install problem



On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 01:01:19AM -0500, Raymond Johnson wrote:

> I'm trying to install debian linux but I'm having trouble.  

You might want to post to debian-boot instead of debian-user.  Not that we
aren't helpful, but that's where the the installer developers hang out.

>... I ran jigdo and downloaded an ISO file successfully and burned a cd
> successfully from the ISO.  After creating the partitions I get to
> "INSTALL KERNEL AND DRIVER MODULES" but it can't seem to find a particular
> file, "images-1.44/rescue.bin" After checking the contents of the CD, I
> find "rescue.bin" in the "boot" directory.  So I tried this again but by
> manually entering the directory where this file is found and I get the
> error message "cannot find file /instmnt/boot/images-1.44/rescue.bin"

My first thought would be to try burning the CD again.  You did check the
MD5 sum, right?  When I installed Sarge (Debian Testing) recently, my first
CD-ROM did burn defectively, and I know it's not uncommon.
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Carl Fink             carl@fink.to
Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading
http://www.jabootu.com



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