Installing Hamm from images I have FTPed from one of the debian mirrors. Trying to install on a 486DX/33 Gateway 200 (donated to our Science Department by a local engineering firm). This machine is destined, with luck and whatever else, to be the Internet gateway machine for our Science Department LAN.
I FTPed the disks a second time and made the images on fresh disks. Still getting the same error: Base14-1 is failing a crc check. Through a convoluted series of efforts, I was able to partition the 200MB HDD, and installed the kernel and modules, but base-1 failed twice, with an identical error. Amazingly, I am getting the same thing with a Slackware 3.5 install on the same machine. The kernel boots, but the root filesystem disk fails a crc check. A scrungy old disk with older Slackware images gets through the boot and root steps ok! The newer set of disks I have just made give this error. With the Debian disks, the crc error ended the install... The Slackware install ended with a kernel panic. I'm going to try older setups. Is there any reason that an older machine would be less compatible with newer install disks? Thank you for having been there, almost always. Alan -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 96950 15.16oN 145.7oE GMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands
