I have tried four things, one of which is suggested here. 1. Download with ftp in binary mode to my system at work, split and transfer the files to diskette, reassemble them at home and run install from MSDOS mode. I had someone to watch the screen. It started expanding files and ran into a CRC error and halted. I think it was trying to do something with root.bin. 2. I looked more carefully at the options during download with internet explorer. There is a combo box with two choices: document and all files. I decided to experiment with the all files choice. I discovered that most of the .bin and .img files had the default set to document. In all subsequent steps, I made sure that it was set to all files for these. For .zip and .EXE files, the default setting seemed to work properly. I checked this choice on every subsequent download to make sure that it looked like a binary download would take place. 3. I took a suggestion to try downloading zipspeak. I did and it worked. I was asked for a login. I did not know where to go from there so I entered root and got a command prompt. Ctrl-alt-del shut the system down wonderfully but I had to turn it off and on to get back to MSDOS. 4. I tried downloading debian again and it did not work.. I did not have anyone available to look at the screen. While I did, I dug around in the BIOS settings and didn't find much of anything worthy of note. I don't have much of an idea where to go with this from here. I am reasonably sure I am downloading properly, I am also reasonably certain that the system will work with linux since zipspeak worked. I am not sure what else to try. Thanks much for all the help up to this point and I hope soon to get to a point with this that I don't have to ask so many questions. Enjoy! Bruce ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kirk Wood" <cpt.kirk@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Bruce Noblick" <bnoblick at columbus.rr.com> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 6:28 PM Subject: Re: not working yet > Bruce, > > One catch if you are using the ftp program that comes in windows. Be sure > to set the transfer to bianary with the command "bin". It is easily > overlooked. That and most programs will automatically choose the corect > mode. But MS chose to not impliment that feature and it will download via > text mode ruining the bianary files. (Downloading text via bianary doesn't > seem to cause any harm though.) > > ======= > Kirk Wood > Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net > > Cluelessness > There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of > inquisitive idiots > >
