Thanks, Andrew. That took care of it. After that, I booted from the rescue disk, configured pcmcia support, and I was on my way.
Brian > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Martin Adrian Cater > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 3:52 PM > To: Brian Morgan > Subject: Re: trouble installing debian -LILO freezing > > > On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 03:25:11PM -0600, Brian Morgan wrote: > > An addendum to my 2 previous posts. > > > > I can go all the way through setup: partitioning OK, loading devices OK, > > installs and configures base system OK. I chose not to configure PCMCIA > > support this time, and I've stopped getting the "problem extracting Base > > System from /target/base2_1.tgz" error message. > > > > It's still, however, freezing up when starting LILO. It just > displays "LI" > > and nothing else. I thought I might try the TECRA disk, but > from what I've > > read, that doesn't seem to be necessary with slink and above. > > > > I can boot from the boot disk (takes a long time, though). > > > > Any suggestions as to how to boot from hard disk? > > > > Thanks again > > > > Brian > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Brian Morgan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 1:08 PM > > > To: Debian User Group > > > Subject: RE: trouble installing debian (any version) > > > > > > > > > I've now tried it again with a completely different set of slink > > > disks with > > > the same results "problem extracting Base System from > /target/base2_1.tgz" > > > > > > Is it possible that it doesn't have enough swap space to extract? > > > I created > > > a 50 meg swap file during setup. Maybe this doesn't apply. > I'm not sure. > > > > > > Brian Morgan > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Brian Morgan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 12:17 PM > > > > To: Debian User Group > > > > Subject: trouble installing debian (any version) > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm having trouble installing debian on my p75 generic brand > > > > laptop (trying > > > > slink and potato). I have gone through setup, installed > > > drivers and base > > > > system, but it gives an error: > > > > > > > > "There was a problem extracting the Base System from > > > > /target/base2_1.tgz" at > > > > the end of installation. When I reboot, it seems to freeze on LILO. > > > > > > > > Is there something I'm doing wrong? Could it be a bad disk in > > > the mix of > > > > things? It doesn't seem to report any bad disks, but who knows? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > Brian Morgan > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > Try opening a shell and running the command > > lilo -l > > which will force lilo to look at the disk in a linear address format. > > This is usually an issue with larger disks than 504MB IIRC. > > Andy >
