Mid September I bought the then current set of Sarge CDs.  I had a
problem installing Debian on one PC, so I tryed the install another PC
to isolate the problem.  On the second computer, Debian installed
perfectly (single boot).  I returned to the first PC and again tried
the install (for a dual-boot system), but I still get this error in
the "install base system" process: "Debootstrap Error.  Couldn't
download apt-utils".  Can you tell me what's going wrong and how I fix
it?

Thanks a lot for your help.

Trish

P.S.  Just previously on the latter PC, I had a good dual boot system
of Win98 and MEPIS where MEPIS was occupying the hard drive I now want
to install Debian on.

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pmconway wrote:

> Mid September I bought the then current set of Sarge CDs.  I had a
> problem installing Debian on one PC, so I tryed the install another PC
> to isolate the problem.  On the second computer, Debian installed
> perfectly (single boot).  I returned to the first PC and again tried
> the install (for a dual-boot system), but I still get this error in
> the "install base system" process: "Debootstrap Error.  Couldn't
> download apt-utils".  Can you tell me what's going wrong and how I fix
> it?
>
> Thanks a lot for your help.
>
> Trish
>
> P.S.  Just previously on the latter PC, I had a good dual boot system
> of Win98 and MEPIS where MEPIS was occupying the hard drive I now want
> to install Debian on.


Have you set up your bootloader properly on the dual boot system ?

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> Have you set up your bootloader properly on the dual boot system ?

Thanks a lot for your reply, Madhusudan, but the installer has not yet
given me the opportunity to set up the boot loader.  I think that comes
after the point of my failure, right?

Trish

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pmconway wrote:
 
>
> Thanks a lot for your reply, Madhusudan, but the installer has not yet
> given me the opportunity to set up the boot loader.  I think that comes
> after the point of my failure, right?
>
> Trish

I apologize for the pointless response. I must have been thinking of a few
other things 

Could you reproduce the messages before you get this error message ? My
hunch is that your download path is somehow not set correctly. Since you
are installing from a local CD drive (not the path I took when I installed
Sarge, but it ought to work), networking is probably not the cause of your
troubles.

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pmconway wrote:

> Mid September I bought the then current set of Sarge CDs.  I had a
> problem installing Debian on one PC, so I tryed the install another PC
> to isolate the problem.  On the second computer, Debian installed
> perfectly (single boot).  I returned to the first PC and again tried
> the install (for a dual-boot system), but I still get this error in
> the "install base system" process: "Debootstrap Error.  Couldn't
> download apt-utils".  Can you tell me what's going wrong and how I fix
> it?
>
> Thanks a lot for your help.
>
> Trish
>
> P.S.  Just previously on the latter PC, I had a good dual boot system
> of Win98 and MEPIS where MEPIS was occupying the hard drive I now want
> to install Debian on.

That error implies a network (internet?) install.  Do you know if you had a
good connection?

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Jim and Madhusudan,

> That error implies a network (internet?) install.  Do you know if you had 
a
> good connection?

Thanks a lot for your replies.  In both the case that worked and the
one that failed, I was installing directly from CDs on the local PC.

I'd really appreciate any other ideas you may have, because I'm
reallyh at a standstill.  &:-(

Trish

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