> Andrew Martin wrote: > > 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
Can you get to your CD-ROM from DOS only? Rather than trying to run boot.bat from a Windows icon, exit Windows with the MS-DOS Mode option. If the DOS drivers for your CD are in CONFIG.DOS (SYS) and AUTOEXEC.DOS (BAT), you should be able to access your CD-ROM drive directly and install from there. Alternatively, do the following: Create a directory on C: such as "C:\DEBIAN". Place the files you mentioned in this directory instead of on the desktop. Also, you might want to include the resc1440.bin and drv1440.bin files. I'm not positive they're needed, but I THINK one or both of them is needed. Then, as above, instead of trying to run boot.bat from Windows, exit Windows into the MS-DOS Mode. Then "cd \debian" to get into the C:\DEBIAN directory, and then enter "boot". That'll probably get you farther along. I think that when you run boot.bat from the desktop, Windows uses C:\WINDOWS as the working directory instead of "C:\WINDOWS\[Profiles\UserName\]DESKTOP", which is why the installation can't find the files that it needs. Putting everything in "C:\DEBIAN" should solve this problem.
