[vox-tech] what's up with debian?

[Richard Harke]

Just to finish this thread...  I installed squeeze using an old net install
cd I had
and then I upgraded to wheezy.

Richard


On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 1:11 AM, Richard Harke <paleopenguin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> that has the checksum for the i386 version, not amd64. i poked around and
> found a directory
> for amd64 that did have am md5sum file but it was for other files than the
> one I downloaded. The directory contained five other amd64 iso's, all
> different from the one I downloaded.
> I have manged now to boot the usb stick but the install program can't find
> the right
> kernel modules even tho there is an initrd on the stick. I think it is
> only looking at the hard
> drives.
>
> Richard
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us>
> wrote:
>
>> Google sez an MD5SUMS file is here: http://cdimage.debian.org/
>> debian-cd/current/multi-arch/iso-cd/
>>
>> Don't know if that is the one you downloaded. It is not unheard of for
>> the copy on one website to be bad, so repeated downloading might not help.
>> Do your due diligence.
>>
>> I would not be surprised about those strings being present... they would
>> be delivered if the first-stage boot loader had difficulty.
>>
>> On Tue, 25 Nov 2014, Richard Harke wrote:
>>
>>  its an iso. debian-7.7.0-amd64-netinst.iso  I didn't see a checksum for
>>> iton the debian web site. I have downloaded several times
>>>
>>> and burned the dvd
>>> more than once on different machines. all with same result.
>>> Very near the beginning of the iso is the text "isolinux.bin missing or
>>> corrupt"
>>> Also the text "Operating system load error"
>>>
>>> Richard
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Jeff Newmiller <
>>> jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
>>>       Is the net install an iso? If so, check the md5sum for the image
>>> you downloaded. Then verify that it burned properly. I
>>>       know no details of the current Debian images, but I have
>>> encountered problems in all three of these ways in the past.
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>>>
>>>       On November 25, 2014 2:09:05 PM PST, Richard Harke <
>>> paleopenguin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>       >I have a machine running lenny and I was going to upgrade but the
>>>       >disk drive started to fail so I decided to do a fresh install on
>>> the
>>>       >new
>>>       >drive. downloaded the net install and burned a dvd. won't boot.
>>>       >copied it to a usb stick. I get a "no operating system" error
>>> message.
>>>       >I have an older net install dvd which boots fine. I also tried the
>>>       >debian live image but no luck. Its beginning to look like I'll
>>> have to
>>>       >install
>>>       >squeeze and then upgrade, a much longer process.
>>>       >
>>>       >Richard
>>>       >
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