Debian?? What is up with it

[chikn]

I downloaded all 3 Debian ISOs and burned them, I figured what the hell Ill try it see if I like it, Im a Slack and Mandrake kinda guy but open.
Put CD in blah blah, hit enter to setup , OK no problem, Keyboard yeah, yeah, partitions OK, still no problem, install kernel and modules, sure thats what I want to do, select install medium yeah OK , insert first CD ....already in there, OK,
Next thing that happens is--
Error- Could not mount Rescue Floppy..WHAT rescue floppy I said install from CDROM

OK maybe it really wants 2nd CD, 2nd CD insert ..install medium CD rom....path to something-1.44/rescue.bin
option 1 list them automatically or option 2 manual
try either one same thing cant find this damn rescue.bin file and WHY does it want it!

WTF- Been to site, read install instructions on CDs I see no reference to this.

Anybody with Debian, so whats the trick, what step did I miss!

[klamath]

Hmmm... I can't really help you, but I can suggest something. With Debian, a lot of people don't use the CDs at all. Just download the bare minimum to bootstrap the install program (which should be a couple of floppy images), then get the rest of the install data and the base system off the Internet. That's what I've done for a while now and it always works great.

[private part peterson]

Originally posted by chikn:
[QB]
OK maybe it really wants 2nd CD, 2nd CD insert ..install medium CD rom....path to something-1.44/rescue.bin
option 1 list them automatically or option 2 manual
try either one same thing cant find this damn rescue.bin file and WHY does it want it!/QB]


On my Debian Potato CD, rescue.bin is in dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/rescue.bin
is yours an official Debian CD (ie Potato or Slink or whatnot)? Or is it an unofficial version of testing or unstable? Rescue.bin is used as a boot disk by the install, because as a rescue disk it serves that purpose well (hence it wanting to install it).

Hope I've helped =)

[bdg1983]

Could it be that it wants to create a rescue disk for use in the future?

Have to tried inserting a blank floppy?

Just a thought...

[chikn]

Well ive tried the blank floppy thing-no go.
I dont get this- it does 2 different things depending upon what cd I put in there to boot from but it all comes down to this rescue thing just in a different way as described above.

Does debian just simply want to boot and install from floppy first to get it started?

[teeitup]

If you want an easier install of Debian try
Progeny. It has a user friendly install and
all of the benefits of Debian. All you need is 1 CD.
http://www.progeny.com/

Good Luck,