Thanks go to the one person who wrote me and suggested I install from the CD instead of floppies. Unfortunately, my only access to a CD burner was through my now-dead windows machine and I don't have the patience to order CDs through the mail.
So.....I took a guess that the partition I created for /boot was too small. Maybe right, maybe not, but after increasing that partition to 200 meg, I was able to run through the 4 driver diskettes and 11 base diskettes and now I have a prompt! woohoo!! On to learning linux and figuring out how to get my modem, NIC and CD drives running..... peace, John --- John Shepherd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > I am a long time ms-dos/windows user taking my > first look at linux. I hope to eventually get > apache, > php and mysql running on my home machine so I can > work > on creating a mysql application while I wait for my > university to configure mysql for student use. > I have been planning for some time to configure > a > linux machine "on the side," but I recently had a > windows crash and decided to try linux now rather > than > reconfigure windows yet another time. I hope this > is > the right place to post a question like the one that > follows. I just subscribed to this list, and have > limited time while at work to read through back > messages. If I'm in the wrong place, please let me > know..... > I am trying to setup debian from floppies on a > hard-drive with nothing else present. It's a 1.2gig > drive. I set up a 10meg partition for /boot, a > 100meg > swap partition, and all the rest on the third. The > machine is a pentium II 233 with 640meg ram. > When the install process is reading data from > the third driver diskette (created from > driver-3.bin), > I get the following error message box: > > Error > Error writing to the output file: Success > > > After selecting "Continue" the next message is: > > File Error > There was a problem installing the Drivers from > /target/drivers.tgz > > > I have tried several different physical > diskettes and I get the same message each time. The > first message is truly perplexing since I am > obviously > nowhere near success. > If someone here can help me, I would be > grateful for any suggestions. > > > Thanks! > John Shepherd > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games > http://sports.yahoo.com > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com
