Steve White wrote: > Greetings, I have been following the directions in the manual I bought > meticulously, but cannot get the base system installed. First, the > disk was purchased from Linux Central along with the book. Next, the > directory structure implied by the text in the book is not even close > to that on the CD. The book also refers to the rawrite2 program and > the resc1440.bin and drv1440.bin files, which were not on the CD > either. I got around this little problem by downloading the proper > files from the HOWTO site, and hoped that the remainder of the install > would go well. Alas, this does not turn out to be the case. I have > tried both options in the install program: letting the program find > base2_1.tgz, and supplying a path for it manually. However, the > automatic option returned a message saying an appropriate path was not > found, and when did a filefind on the CD on my other computer, I could > not find it either. What is going on? Have I gotten the wrong CD, or > have I purchased something other than the Debian GNU/Linux Release > 2.1? Any and all help will be appreciated. Best Regards,Steve
Hi Steve, Unfortunately there were a batch of these books which came with a bad CD, which I also purchased. Check out the New Rider's web site for a free replacement CD: http://www2.newriders.com/cfm/prod_book.cfm?RecordID=585 - Dan
