ran out of input data

[Andrew Martin]

I am trying, to no avail, to install Debian 2.2 thru Windows.  I haven't been able to get my CD drive to work since it is not a conventional IDE drive.  It attaches to its own sound card.  Anyhow....   1: I have defrag'ed the drive 2: I turned off the virtual memory in win 95 3: I fips to split the partition 4: I rebooted the computer and re-enabled the virtual memory in win95 5: I ran scan disk and everything looked ok 6: I copyed the following files to the desktop     boot.bat     linux     loadlin.exe     root.bin        These were all copyed from the install folder on the CD 7: I right clicked on the boot.bat file 8: Went to properties 9: Clicked on the advanced button 10: Checked the ms-dos mode box 11: Exited the properties menu 12: I then double clicked on the MS-DOS shortcut to boot.bat 13: It gave me a warning that this was going to run in dos 14: I clicked ok and below is what I got   uncompressing linux   ran out of input data   system halted   I am installing this on a 66mhz 486DX2 with 16MB of memory.  From what I have read that should be enough to do it.  Should I quit trying to use my current CD drive and just spring for a new IDE drive?  This is so frustrating.   If anyone wants to they can e-mail me direct at [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Thanks,   Andrew