[SLUG] Installing Debian

[Al Girling]

On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 21:44:45 +0000
Jamie Adams wrote:

> It says that you have to use TWO boot floppies, the images of which are 
> on the first cdrom under the 'install' directory. The image names are 
> 'root.bin' and 'rescue.bin'. You write them to the disk the same way 
> you did with Mandrake.

O.K.  I've managed to make the 'rescue.bin' dics alright, but the 'root.bin' is freaking me out!!  Below is an extract of what I see when using ls -l /mnt/floppy  after copying 'root.bin' from the CD.

[root at localhost al]# ls -l /mnt/floppy/
ls: /mnt/floppy/°ø??
³.: No such file or directory
ls: /mnt/floppy/ó/qó.~: No such file or directory
ls: /mnt/floppy/­/só?.°=: No such file or directory
ls: /mnt/floppy/$?_üë .wó/: No such file or directory
ls: /mnt/floppy/?_ë? +­/.cô : No such file or directory
ls: /mnt/floppy/?­/uów.°ù): No such file or directory
ls: /mnt/floppy/ó»??óå.uó/: No such file or directory
ls: /mnt/floppy/ä??+­/bô.?°: No such file or directory
ls: /mnt/floppy/ó?»?o	­./pó: No such file or directory
total 133613799
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root     225427624 Jul  1  1985 °?*
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root     1065288330 Jan 31  1995 °?.???*
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root     4026605536 Dec 11  1939 ¢.?,?*
-rwxrwxrwx    1 root     root     4022381279 Dec 31  2010 ?°=.×*
-rwxrwxrwx    1 root     root     31980554 Jan 28  1980 ¹:­??ü ,.??»*
-rwxrwxrwx    1 root     root     174325249 Mar 16  2021 °??°².?³?*
-rwxrwxrwx    1 root     root     2342510676 Oct  2  1983 ³?*
-rwxrwxrwx    1 root     root     1065462047 Dec 25  1946 ³??°'.?°'*
-rwxrwxrwx    1 root     root     1178533929 Jul 28  2000 °?+­'?³².?³?*
-rwxrwxrwx    1 root     root     2675933246 Dec 22  1904 ?³§?³?.v??*
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root     4290779263 Oct 25  1971 ?³7?°ã.à?°*
dr-xr-xr-x    0 root     root          512 Dec 25  1930 ?³?7ocô .?°ù/
drwxrwxrwx    0 root     root          512 Dec  3  1955 ³,ç?uü??.­?)/
dr-xr-xr-x    0 root     root          512 Dec 21  1963 ?³f?³jç?._??/
dr-xr-xr-x    0 root     root          512 Jun 27  1907 $?¥?³m5­.ù"±/
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root     3674145711 Feb  1  1988 ³ò*
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root     4261763327 Nov 30  1970 +­??³ú?°.?*
dr-xr-xr-x    0 root     root          512 Jan 24  2034 ?³û.???/

There's lots more than this, but I thought that would probably be enough!  I copied this with;

dd if=/mnt/cdrom/install/root.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 conv=sync ; sync

as per the instructions.  Does anyone have a clue what this all is?  Surely this can't be right?!

Al