Hi Kenny. Well it appears that 1 or more of these floppies is bad, so I am going to have to have someone burn the basedebs.tar to a cd so I can try installing again. The last 2 times I tried floppies, debootstrap returned an exit(1); This was after my hard disk made some not-too-promising buzzing type noises. I heard that mixed in with regular disk access noise. However, the very first time I tried the floppies, it seemed to hang when it was "installing base packages." So I rebooted and have gotten some kind of error the last 2 times i tried. I don't think this is related to any file being coppied, because in theory everything should be overwritten. One thing I did discover however. The last 2 times I coppied from floppies, I didn't find a basedebs.tar in /target where its suppposed to be. I believe this constitutes a disk failure as I have suspected all along? Meaning, when all of this started aboug 2 days ago. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenny Hitt" <kennyhitt@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 3:59 PM Subject: Re: another problem > Hi. Yes, the Woody CD's contain the base files. They are also already > broken up into 1.4 meg chuncks. Look for a directory called > images-1.44 > > Just dd or rawrite the files to 1.4 meg floppies. > > I posted a reply to your other message but messed up and didn't delete > quotes so it didn't get through. > > Basically I suggested you should make sure your /etc/lilo.conf file on > the target system is ok after you install the base files because the > base file installation might overwrite it. > Also, since you are booting from a rescue disk, you shouldn't need the > su command. > > Hope I've helped and good luck. > > Kenny > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
