Goswin Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> When installing Debian, the installation of the Driver disks reads past
> the end of drivers-3.bin (that probably what tar/gzip allways try)
>
> Normaly that wont be a problem, since a real floppy will have some spam
> after the driver-3.bin, but when using the files via loopback or in an
> emulator that results in an IO error and you are questioned to try the
> disk again.
It was a problem to me ;) (using an external floppy of an IBM ThinkPad 560
laptop). Driver-1.bin and driver-2.bin were loaded without problem, but
at the end of driver-3.bin I got an error which caused me not to have any
modules available... After a few tries with some different diskettes, I
took a different approach and instead of using these images:
ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/debian/dists/frozen/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/
Y tried with theses ones:
ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/debian/dists/frozen/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/safe/
The funny part was that diff said that both sources of driver-3.bin were
identical, although the one from above did not work...
If you take a look at the dates, the images that did not work were of
June 07, and the ones that worked were of June 10.
>
> An aditional few blocks should be added to the drivers-3.bin, for example by:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero bs=1k count=100 | cat >>driver-3.bin
>
> That resolves the problem and makes Debian installable under VMware.
I agree we should pad these files out. There is a more robust way to
do it. We already do that for the other images -- see the bottom of
rescue.sh, the dd ... conv=notrunc stuff.
Any objections to making this change?
Not from me. It's annoying to get such an error and I am sure it will cause
newbies not to install if they begin getting such difficulties...
Regards, Alvaro
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