As Luca Maranzano said: > > Hi all, > > I'm installing Debian 1.1 on a P90 with a NCR53c810 SCSI controller, > so I grabbed the special kernel 'boot1440_2.0.5-1.bin' which supports > this cotroller. The installation process proceeds fine until the > "Install the Operating System Kernel" step. When I insert the > boot floppy after a while I get the message: > > Error in archive format.
The boot floppy has an MS-DOS filesystem on it. If you do a directory of that disk, you'll find a file called MODULES.TGZ This is the bad file. Either use the DOS versions of gzip and tar, or upload this file to a Unix system and rename it 'modules.tar.gz' gzip -d MODULES.TGZ works fine. tar tf MODULES.TAR recreates your error. It's a bad tar file. All the special kernel disks have this. I had to create my own MODULES.TGZ file on another Unix system by extracing the pertinent modules from one of the Debian packages (I forget which one now). --gilbert ______________________________________________________________________ Gilbert Ramirez Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Texas http://merece.uthscsa.edu/gram Health Science Center at San Antonio University Health System
