> Hi, > > This is my first attempt to install Linux ever, and this from the CD > coming with the book i just bought : Installing Debian GNU/Linux (version > 2.1). I know it is an old version, but it should work anyway, no ?
> I have a Fujitsu laptop with 32 Mg of RAM, a CDROM drive, a floppy drive and a > 4Gb harddrive > which i repartitioned using PartitionMagic 7.0 (i kept 2Gb for Windows 98 > on hda1 and created a Linux and a Linux swap partitions on hda5 and hda6 > on the remaining space, the swap partition being a little bigger than > the 128Mb allowed by this version of Debian). > > Since i wasn't able to boot from the CDROM, i used rawrite2 to make a > rescue diskette and a drivers diskette (i used the tecra version for > both, 'cause i read somewhere it suited laptops better). My problem > now, is that when i boot with the rescue diskette and try to install > Debian, the installer blocks on the "Install base system" > part. When asked to say where to install the base system from, i first tried > by > referring to the CDROM (hdc), and later to the harddisk (on which i > copied, from the CDROM, the directory on which resides the base2_1.tgz > file). Alas, the installer, after telling me it was > decompressing the file, proposes me, again, to install the base system > ! To be sure, i tried to pass to the next step "Configure base system", > but the installer replied : "To configure the base system, you have to > install it first". > > I have no idea what to try next, except asking the Debian User Community > ! > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > Fred ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > P.S. By the way, can someone explain me how the kernel code can be > stored on the first 1024 cylinders of a disk ? The figure 3.1 of the > book doesn't help me much. 1024 x 16 x 63 x 512 equals ruffly half a > gigabyte, no ? Then how can the partitioning of the figure 3.1 resolve > the problem, since all partitions it shows have more than half a > gigabyte ?
