Well I broke down last night and went to wal-mart at 3:00am and bought a IDE cd rom drive. So now everything will install but..........The instructions in the book that came with the dist. said to make a boot floppy and then reboot the system. I did that. Now it wants me to type in my root password and the key board is dead. No action what so ever. In the setup I picked the default keyboard settings. How can I go back and change them?
Andrew ----- Original Message ----- From: John Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 8:33 PM Subject: Re: ran out of input data > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 04:18:14PM -0500, Andrew Martin wrote > > > [snip] > > > > > > If your CDROM isn't an IDE or SCSI CDROM, or it's connected to > > > an ISA/PNP card, then you'll definitely need rescue.bin and the > > > file drivers.tgz, so that you can load the driver required for > > > your CDROM and continue from there via CDROM. You may also > > > want to consider putting base2_2.tgz there, so that you > > > don't have to rely on your CDROM drive to install the base > > > system. > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > You also should try to identify your CDROM type before > > > proceeding, so that you don't end up sweating over it trying to > > > figure out which of the half-dozen or so likely drivers is > > > appropriate while your machine is no longer running Windows, > > > but not yet running Debian. What make & model is it? > > > > [snip] > > > Ok....I tried to but all of the files in my new folder on c drive. I also > > changed my drive letter for the cd in config.sys I was able to boot from > > either one but still got the "ran out of input data" message. > > > > My cd drive is a Sony CDU31A-02. It isn't a regular IDE drive. It has it's > > own card which is also the sound card. > > > > I didn't try putting base2_2.tgz in the folder. I was pretty tired when I > > did this. > > Is that the file that contains the kernal? If it is then that should get me > > to where I can install drivers for the cd right? > > > > Andrew > > > > You will need to load the "cdu31a" driver durinmg installation before > you can access files from the CDs. > > Because of the order that the installer does things, you must > load both the kernel and drivers from somewhere other than your > CD; you should then be able to use the CD for installing the > base system and packages. > > The kernel is normally loaded from a rescue floppy, from the CD > or from your hard disk; you can't use the CD, so you must use > either a rescue floppy or copy 'rescue.bin' to your hard disk, > as you have done. > > The drivers get loaded either from a set of floppy disks (the > number of disks depends on the kernel flavour you use), or the > 'drivers.tgz' file that you have copied to your hard disk. > > 'base2_2.tgz' is an archive containing the base system, and you > *should* be able to access that from you CDROM once you've > loaded the CDU31a driver module. > > If your system is very low on memory (under 6MB installed) then > you may have trouble running the Debian installer, or booting > from a standard boot disk; however you have 16MB, so this > shouldn't be a problem. > > It may be that whatever default settings your system uses for > MS-DOS programs interfere with loadlin's operation; one thing > you may like to try is exiting to MS-DOS and running the program > from there rather than running it as a full-screen program > under Windows: > - From the Start menu, select Shutdown... > - Choose Exit to MS-DOS > - At the DOS prompt, assuming you copied all of the files to c:\debian: > C> c: > C> cd \debian > C> boot.bat > > Alternatively, try making boot & root floppies and seeing how > that works; it is possible that Loadlin has issues with your > BIOS. > > > HTH, > > John P. > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.mdt.net.au/~john Debian Linux admin & support:technical services > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
