Actually, I think I found the problem.
I had been using RAWRITE (old version from potato) to write my floppies
instead of RAWRITE3. No matter how many times I rewrote the floppies,
I kept getting that ERROR 1 upon installing the base system.
Then I noticed that it was a new release of RAWRITE, s
I don't know; one keeps hearing floppies disparaged. However, i did several
installs using root, rescue, base, and driver floppies because I was using
speakup-enabled disks and didn't have a cd burner. I never ever had one single
problem doing this (this was with potato). Yes, floppies can fail, bu
Windoze is notoriously bad about downloading binary files because it
always wants to apply some filter or file `opening' program.
But, assuming that you can get the rescue and root disk donwloaded and
written to good floppies, the net install will go pretty smooth from then
on, especially if you j
> Michael> Attempt 4-trying the impossible: downloading a Tarball
> Michael> over Windoze and my slow line.
>
> If you have a weblink that will work with linux why not just use a net
> install. The problem above is probably not with woody, but with your
> floppy drive. Floppies are notoriou
"Michael" == Michael Rudmin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Michael> I decided to download the disk images.
Michael> Attempt 1- Downloaded 20 images. Took a few retries, but
Michael> that's what a slow permanent link is good for. Installed
Michael> them on my hard disk on a vfat
The safest way to transition from potato to woody is not to install
woody over potato, but to run 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. The upgrade
capability is what distinguishes Debian from the rest of the pack.
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:16:10PM +0200, DSC Extra wrote:
> This is me, having gotten my email
This is me, having gotten my email back up and running on my Win98 system and
no longer bound to webmail. Same guy.
Anyhow, I got the tarball, and reinstalled -- got error 1 again.
[Attempt 5] Went ahead and tried reinstalling with minimum optional
configurations,
just SCSI and LPR. Everything
On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 16:26, Michael Rudmin wrote:
> It looks to me like Woody is not quite ready for
> install.
>
> P.S. If you reply to this cc: me over at Mike_Rudmin
> "at" yahoo.com, or I won't see it. Not that I have
> to. [@ sign was spelled out to jinx spammers].
I've had no problems
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