Net Installing Deb 31r on Dell Inspiron 7000
Made a CD using debian-31r0a-i386-netinst.iso. Computer boots from CD but
gets stuck during install process. This is a Dell Inspiron 7000 with a P2
Mobile 333, 96MB Ram and a Toshiba Combo CD and Floppy. There is 1 - 8
gig IDE HD with one partition with Win 98 on it. Figured I'd partition
later. I hit enter to boot, get past screens to choose language, country
and keyboard layout, goes thru process to detect CD, Scans CD Rom and tells
me "problem reading data, please make sure it is in drive, if retrying does
not work check integrity of cd rom. retrying does not help. Installer
main menu shows at step - load installer components from cd. If I drop two
steps to check cd integrity - reports - no valid debian cd rom - without
even spinning the cd. I have downloaded this iso twice now and made two cds
- one from each download. Both cds behave exactly the same way. I
understand that I should check the md5 but have not yet figured out how.
Seems like maybe the problem is not really with the cd image . suggestions?
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