Well, I'm pleased to report that I finally succeeded with my first Linux installation. I was installing Debian 2.1+ from the OReilly CD and was having some trouble installing the base system (though everything else seemed to install just fine). I appreciate the helpful comments from those who gave advice regarding the problem, but unfortunately it turned out to be a hardware problem!
I swapped out my CD ROM drive for my housemate's CD ROM drive and tried again with that. It worked, to my amazement, and I was soon thereafter set up with my Debian system. More newbie questions to come from me in the near future... (oh, I know you're excited too) Erik __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com
