Net Installing Deb 31r on Dell Inspiron 7000
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gets stuck during install process. This is a Dell Inspiron 7000 with a P2
Mobile 333, 96MB Ram and a Toshiba Combo CD and Floppy. There is 1 - 8
gig IDE HD with one partition with Win 98 on it. Figured I'd partition
later. I hit enter to boot, get past screens to choose language, country
and keyboard layout, goes thru process to detect CD, Scans CD Rom and tells
me "problem reading data, please make sure it is in drive, if retrying does
not work check integrity of cd rom. retrying does not help. Installer
main menu shows at step - load installer components from cd. If I drop two
steps to check cd integrity - reports - no valid debian cd rom - without
even spinning the cd. I have downloaded this iso twice now and made two cds
- one from each download. Both cds behave exactly the same way. I
understand that I should check the md5 but have not yet figured out how.
Seems like maybe the problem is not really with the cd image . suggestions?
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Mitch Wiedemann
>Made a CD using debian-31r0a-i386-netinst.iso. Computer boots from CD but
>gets stuck during install process. This is a Dell Inspiron 7000 with a P2
>Mobile 333, 96MB Ram and a Toshiba Combo CD and Floppy. There is 1 - 8
>gig IDE HD with one partition with Win 98 on it. Figured I'd partition
>later. I hit enter to boot, get past screens to choose language, country
>and keyboard layout, goes thru process to detect CD, Scans CD Rom and tells
>me "problem reading data, please make sure it is in drive, if retrying does
>not work check integrity of cd rom. retrying does not help. Installer
>main menu shows at step - load installer components from cd. If I drop two
>steps to check cd integrity - reports - no valid debian cd rom - without
>even spinning the cd. I have downloaded this iso twice now and made two cds
>- one from each download. Both cds behave exactly the same way. I
>understand that I should check the md5 but have not yet figured out how.
>Seems like maybe the problem is not really with the cd image . suggestions?
>
>
It may be a bug in the net-installer rather than a bad disc. I've had
similar problems with various versions of the net-installer cd images.
On one computer (It may have even been an Inspiron 7000, come to think
of it) I had to install from an old Woody disc set, and upgrade. (that
worked fine though).
Try getting the full Debian Sarge disc 1 and install from that. Then
edit your apt-sources and install the system as you like.
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Mitch Wiedemann
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http://ithacafreesoftware.org
clc-...@hotpop.com
Will DL Sarge Disk 1. Was Following suggestions, as I understood them on
Debian Web Site recomending Net Install to save bandwidth, etc. Should this
bug be reported? I am a complete novice to linux so am working my way thru
this step by step. Thanks for the help.
Steve