Debian Install problem

[Raymond Johnson]

Greetings!

 

I'm trying to install debian linux but I'm having
trouble.  I ran jigdo and downloaded an ISO file successfully and burned a
cd successfully from the ISO.  After creating the partitions I get to
"INSTALL KERNEL AND DRIVER MODULES" but it can't seem to find a
particular file, "images-1.44/rescue.bin"  After checking the
contents of the CD, I find "rescue.bin" in the "boot"
directory.  So I tried this again but by manually entering the directory
where this file is found and I get the error message "cannot find file /instmnt/boot/images-1.44/rescue.bin"

 

Am I doing something wrong or is this some sort of
error?  I can see way to access this file since the directory name is
included in the filename, a directory which doesn't exist.

 

Is the ISO bad?  If so, can you recommend one that you
know for certain works?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

xray

RE: Debian Install problem

[Raymond Johnson]

-Original Message-
From: Carl Fink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carl Fink
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 3:44 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Debian Install problem

On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 01:01:19AM -0500, Raymond Johnson wrote:

> I'm trying to install debian linux but I'm having trouble.  

You might want to post to debian-boot instead of debian-user.  Not that we
aren't helpful, but that's where the the installer developers hang out.

>... I ran jigdo and downloaded an ISO file successfully and burned a cd
> successfully from the ISO.  After creating the partitions I get to
> "INSTALL KERNEL AND DRIVER MODULES" but it can't seem to find a particular
> file, "images-1.44/rescue.bin" After checking the contents of the CD, I
> find "rescue.bin" in the "boot" directory.  So I tried this again but by
> manually entering the directory where this file is found and I get the
> error message "cannot find file /instmnt/boot/images-1.44/rescue.bin"

My first thought would be to try burning the CD again.  You did check the
MD5 sum, right?  When I installed Sarge (Debian Testing) recently, my first
CD-ROM did burn defectively, and I know it's not uncommon.

Well, I found the problem.  It turns out that I was trying to install from
the 2nd disk :(  I realized this after I posted.  I am a little surprised
that it did the initial partitioning being that it was the 2nd disk.  It was
my first time using jigdo and I don't know what I did wrong; perhaps I
mistyped the file name.

Thanks for your help,

Raymond