Hello, I recently got excited about the possibility of switching to Linux, and never having to use Microsoft Windows again. While I am a programmer, and used Unix many years ago, I am a complete newbie to Linux. I've chosen to try to install Debian because I respect open source code and because of the good things I've heard about its package management system. I decided to try installing Woody, because I've heard it's stable and nearing release.
I'm trying to install it to an older laptop machine (Pentium mmx, 128 Meg Ram, 4G hard drive). While I have a CD-R burner in a desktop machine, the laptop's CD-reader is too finicky to read them, so I searched for another way to do the installation. I decided to install from a Dos partition. The laptop has a second hard drive, and I was able to copy the contents of the first Woody CD to a Dos partition on the hard drive. The beginning of the installation went fine. I created my swap and boot partitions, and selected a file image for the kernel (selecting everything from the directory woody/main/disks-~1/current). Trouble came at the step "Install base system." When it searched for a file it could use for the base, it gave the error "Couldnt find any directory containing a file basedebs.tar or dists\woody\main\binary-i386\Release" I couldn't get beyond this point. I searched through the Dos partition I was installing from. It contained a file "dists\woody\main\binary-i386\Release". Is it possible this "file" is actually a soft link to a directory? Of course the DOS file system doesn't support soft links, so I could see why that would be a problem. If this is the case, is there a way I can fix things to continue to install from a DOS partition? Thanks in advance for your help, Rick T -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
