I recently bought my first computer - a Cyrix P180 without an OS - and have been trying unsuccessfully for the last week to install Linux. I hope someone can help this frustrated newbie.
I first tried to install Debian 2.0 using CDs from CheapBytes. Everything went fine until it came time to install the base system, at which time the machine said it couldn't read the file base2_0.tgz. There was an error message obscured by the curses window which looked like it said something about invalid compressed data. After a bunch of fruitless fooling around, I downloaded the base system from the net onto floppies and was able to install it that way, although the system hung when it tried to reboot. I now have a bash shell, but when I now run dselect, I get a number of error messages something like the following: gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data -crc error dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 2 dpkg: error processing -/var/lib/dpkg/blahblahlah (-install) corrupted file system tar file corrupted package archive What's going wrong? Martin Smith
