At 04:34 PM 12/14/1998 +0000, Martin Smith wrote: >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
Actually, on second thought, since your machine hung on reboot, I might also suspect your hard drive, your hard drive controller, RAM, CPU, etc. I vaguely remember seeing something that Linux needs some special considerations when running on some sort of non-Intel CPU; maybe it's Cyrix. You might search the web for references to Cyrix and Linux.
