Paindavoine, Matthieu (MPAINDAV) wrote:
Out of curiosity....
I spent my weekend trying to reinstall Deb 2.2 out of floppies, on a 4GB HD.
The installation kept sending me back to the floor, (the floppies would die
before the end of the install of the base, or it wouldn't make the hd
bootable). I was using a partition like
/boot primary 10MB
/swap primary 32MB
/ primary 32MB
/home logical 1000MB
/usr logical 800MB
/var logical 250MB
I changed that now to
/boot primary 10MB
/swap primary 32MB
/ primary rest
and the installation went smoothly.
Now I'm just wondering what was wrong with what i assume is a wrong
partitioning of my HD?
Thanks
Matt
I don't see anything obviously wrong with your partitioning, but from my
experience installing Debian via floppies, I can say with an 85%
confidence level, the problem is one or more bad floppies. Replace the
floppy on which the install is dying. If that doesn't fix it, replace it
again. You need absolutely perfect, non-flawed floppies for a Debian
installation.
Kent
