[plug] Debian ver 3.0

[garry]

Assuming the disk was not damaged, a 5 minute fix might be to change the 
cdrom drives over.

HTH

Garry



On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 00:02, James Elliott wrote:
> I loaded Debian 3.0 onto my old AMD 233 MHz computer without any real
> problems.
>
> I have just built and AMD Athlon 1.8 GHz computer and partitioned the disk
> 50%:50%  for Windows:Linux.
>
> Win 98 SE is up an running fine in it's partition.
>
> During the installation of Debian I used cfdisk to partition the free space
> on the disk:
>
> 16 MB boot partition
> 9 GB Linux root partition
> 1 GB Linux swap partition
>
> I just mention this in case it has some bearing on the error message, which
> was:
>
> file:   /instmnt/pool/main/i/iptables_1-2.6a-5_i386.deb was corrupt
>
> I must have re-run that step a dozen times before giving up and abandoning
> my installation.
>
> It is funny that the same CD worked on one computer but was declared
> "corrupt" on the newer computer.
>
> I would appreciate any comments or suggestions.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> James Elliott