Re: install problem with base2_1.tgx

1999-08-21 Thread Karl F. Larsen
Richard, I looked at the 2 mbyte Minix directory that the rescue disk made and it has in the /bin directory 'tarcat' and 'zczt'. Both are new to me but they may be what the rescue disk wants... Did the disk ask you what you wanted to load? On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Richard Zeigler wro

Re: install problem with base2_1.tgx

1999-08-21 Thread Ben Collins
> I checked the rescue and driver floppies and niether of them have any > plainly labled reference to tar or gzip. The driver floppy has files on > it that are of the tgz variety ant it seems to work fine. I guess those > two utilities are crammed into some other file on the rescue floppy. I bel

Re: install problem with base2_1.tgx

1999-08-21 Thread Kent West
Richard Zeigler wrote: > > List, > > I am installing Debian 2.1 on a Toshiba Satelite T2130CS laptop w/ 32MB > RAM, 2 gig HD and i486 processor. I am booting from the rescue disk and > intend to use an existing DOS partition to install the base system (the > laptop has no cd or modem). Everyth

Re: install problem with base2_1.tgx

1999-08-21 Thread Richard Zeigler
On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Karl F. Larsen wrote: > > Hi Richard, I loaded the base debian on 14" floppys to my old > laptop and it went smooth and worked. I am sure the rescue disk has gzip > and tar on it, but perhaps you better check. It takes gzip to unzip that > file and then tar to put it al

Re: install problem with base2_1.tgx

1999-08-21 Thread Karl F. Larsen
Hi Richard, I loaded the base debian on 14" floppys to my old laptop and it went smooth and worked. I am sure the rescue disk has gzip and tar on it, but perhaps you better check. It takes gzip to unzip that file and then tar to put it all in the directories. On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Richard

install problem with base2_1.tgx

1999-08-21 Thread Richard Zeigler
List, I am installing Debian 2.1 on a Toshiba Satelite T2130CS laptop w/ 32MB RAM, 2 gig HD and i486 processor. I am booting from the rescue disk and intend to use an existing DOS partition to install the base system (the laptop has no cd or modem). Everything went great until it came to the b