Hi, This is my first attempt to install Linux ever, and this from the CD coming with the book Installing Debian GNU/Linux (version 2.1). I have a Fujitsu laptop with a CDROM drive, a floppy drive and a 4Gb harddrive which i repartitionned using PartitionMagic 7.0 (i kept 2Gb for Windows on hda1 and created a Linux and a Linux swap partitions on hda5 and hda6 on the remaining space, the swap partition being a little bigger than the 128Mb allowed by the version of Debian).
Since i wasn't able to boot from the CDROM, i used rawrite2 to make a rescue diskette and a drivers diskette (i used the tecra version for both, 'cause i read somewhere it suited laptops better). My problem now, is that when i boot with the rescue diskette and try to install Debian, the installation software blocks on the "Install base system" part. When asked to say where to install it from, i tried first by referring to the CDROM (hdc), and then to the harddisk (on which i copied, from the CDROM, the directory on which resides the base2_1.tgz file). Alas, the installation software, after telling me it was decompressing the file, proposes me, again, to install the base system ! To be sure, i tried to pass to the next step "Configure base system", but the software replied : "To configure the base system, you have to install it first". I have no idea what to try next, except asking the Debian User Community ! Thanks in advance for any help. Fred ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) P.S. By the way, can someone explain me how the kernel code can be stored on the first 1024 cylinders of a disk ? The figure 3.1 of the book doesn't help me much. 1024 x 16 x 63 x 512 equals ruffly half a gigabyte, no ? Then how can the partitioning of the figure 3.1 resolve the problem, since all partitions it shows have more than half a gigabyte ?
