I'm trying to install debian on a laptop system. I partitioned the lone 500MB hard drive and installed Win95 and that's up and running. Now I have a 20MB partition for swap and a 200MB partition for linux. I pop in the rescue diskette and it boots fine, the installation procedure sets up the partitions (swap and ext2) without a hitch, but now, I'm at the "Install Operating System Kernel and Modules". It asks me to select the install medium, which is /dev/fd0 (the only floppy drive). The procedure then prompts me to insert the Rescue diskette, which is already in the drive, and then it gives me the following error:
Installing from rescue floppy ... ./install.sh: Can't open ./install.sh The attempt to extract the rescue floppy failed. Needless to say, nothing is installed and when I get back to the installation menu it wants to try the same thing over, and it continually fails with the same error. Laptop Specs: IBM Thinkpad 755C 20MB RAM 500MB Hard Disk (280MB for Win95, 20MB linux swap, 200MB linux ext2) 1 1.44MB 3.5" floppy drive Xircom parallel port ethernet adapter 14.4 PCMCIA Modem/Fax Adaptec 1460 (I think that's the number) PCMCIA SCSI Adapter User Specs (all dates and numbers approximate): Unix user since 1989 System adminstrator experience since 1991 Linux user since v0.90 kernel Debian user since 1996 Any suggestions? Maybe I'll try installing from a Win95 partition (FAT16), but the problem with the floppies bugs me! Gary Hennigan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
