Re: base-8 disk

2001-07-12 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 06:56:49PM -0600, A. Roubicek wrote: > > I read at > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-partitioning.en.html : > - > 4.1.1 The Directory Tree > > The following list describes some important dir

Re: base-8 disk

2001-07-11 Thread A. Roubicek
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 11:16:53PM -0600, A. Roubicek wrote: > > Thank you Matt! I had set a "/" partition too small for the base system... > > (I followed the instructions in the installation website, but I guess one > > has to play with dimensions a lit

Re: base-8 disk

2001-07-11 Thread Matt Kraai
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 11:16:53PM -0600, A. Roubicek wrote: > Thank you Matt! I had set a "/" partition too small for the base system... > (I followed the instructions in the installation website, but I guess one > has to play with dimensions a little...are there examples of partition > tables on

Re: base-8 disk

2001-07-10 Thread A. Roubicek
Thank you Matt! I had set a "/" partition too small for the base system... (I followed the instructions in the installation website, but I guess one has to play with dimensions a little...are there examples of partition tables one can consult?) I unsubscribed to the mailing list because I was g

Re: base-8 disk

2001-07-04 Thread Matt Kraai
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:19:31PM -0600, A. Roubicek wrote: > The error message appears in an installation-type window and says: > "error writing to output file: success"; > after that it tries to install from the incomplete gz file and fails. > I hope you can find this info useful; please let me

Re: base-8 disk

2001-07-03 Thread Matt Kraai
fine until I use the base-8 disk, > there I get an "error...success" message. I tried downloading the disk > again, rawrite2 to another floppy, install several times, and always get > the same result. Could you please send us the exact error message that you see? I wasn't a

base-8 disk

2001-07-03 Thread A. Roubicek
Hi, I am new to this list, I apologize if this is not the place to post this question, and if it is too basic... I am trying to install the latest debian version on a compaq lte elite using floppies and everything goes fine until I use the base-8 disk, there I get an "error...success&quo