Hi, solved the problem. For some strange reason commenting out the network apt sources in the sources.list file made the installer read packages from the cdrom again and not complaining anymore, I figured updates could be run later after uncommmenting those network sources. Now I have another problem, X window system does not start up (but it did start once after installation, using xdm) because of some IO error, it says it fails to lad some module, namely APM I think. Any one knows any possible solution? (Tried dpkg-reconfigure -xserver-xfree86 ... but it did not solve the problem.. uhm.. I seem to be messing with this thing more than I ought to.. but I want it oh so much to get working..) Thanks for any help/suggestions.
Francesco
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 21:24:53 +0000 (GMT), "Dan Hatton" dan.hatton@btinternet.com said:
I recently had a very similar problem. Under the guidance of Steve McIntyre, I went through the following sequence of attempted solutions, in increasing order of drastic-ness. Sadly, it was the last and most drastic one that worked.
1 Use a different set of CDs that were written more slowly. 2 Use a single DVD-ROM instead of the CD set. 3 Replace the IDE cable to the CD/DVD-ROM drive. 4 Replace the CD/DVD-ROM drive.
Oops. There I go advising someone to mess around inside their computer again. Please, if possible, make sure you back up all your valuable data before doing this.
-- Dan Hatton http://www.bib.hatton.btinternet.co.uk/dan/
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 franardia@the-fastest.net wrote:
HI everyone again. I had been trying to install Debian 3.0 on my new machine. Having succeeded on the old one I thought there would have been no problems at all installing it again. However this time I do have a major problem. After running dselect the installer asks for the first cdrom and then starts reading it but instead of installing from it fetches a few updated packages from http apt sources (that I added) and security updates. After that is done (about 30mins) it starts reading the cd again and throws an error:
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