I am very, very new to linux and attempting to install Debian on my PC.
I am having 3 independent problems that I hope someone can help me with.
1) I have a Mitsumi CD-ROM drive, but when I try to install the drivers
for it during the "install drivers phase" of installation, I keep
getting the message installation failed. It seems like the drive is
supported (there are options for a Mitsumi CD-ROM drive and an Mitsumi
extended drive). I am not sure if it is failing because I am giving it
the wrong command line options (specifying IRQ and IO, which admittedly I
am unsure about) or what.
2) I have an SMC 1211TX network card, and I am trying to use the
rtl8139 driver for it, but I keep receiving an installation failed message
as well. I know that someone else has successfully used this driver with
this card, but he was not using Debian. To get it to work, he ended up
hacking the drivers a little and compiling it into the kernel. My
question is: after only the base install, is it possible to compile the
kernel? My original plan was to configure my network card, and then
download packages through ftp, but I may need to compile code before I can
configure my network card.
3) During the base install, I keep getting a message that says "There
was a problem extracting the base system from /target/base2_0.tgz" after I
have entered all 5 floppy disks with the base system on them (without
receiving any disk errors). I used rawrite2 under a DOS shell in win95 to
write to the disks (I no longer have Win95 on my computer), so what could
the problem be?
Thank You,
Sunil
