Re: Debian installation by newbie

From: Kent West (westk_at_acu.edu)
Date: 07/30/03

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    Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 09:58:07 -0500
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    Antony Gelberg wrote:

    >On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:31:38AM -0500, Shashank Bhide wrote:
    >
    >
    >>Hello folks,
    >> Could you tell me how to install Debian ? I got to the archives section
    >>(I want to install Potato and then upgrade to woody.....learning process),
    >>but there are a lot of files and I am confused as to which files I need to
    >>use in order to get the OS installed. Do I need to burn CDs? Or the floppy
    >>disk images are sufficient?
    >>Please advise,
    >>Shashank
    >>
    >>
    >
    >Have a look on the documentation on www.debian.org.
    >
    >Antony
    >
    >
    >
    >
    More specifically, the Installation Manual for x86 architectures at:
    http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install

    (there are other archs available also, but I'm assuming you're on x86).

    I find that it's easiest to download a minimal Network Installation CD,
    and boot off of that to install just enough to hit the network to finish
    up a complete install.

    If you have issues with burning/booting CDs, yes the floppy images are
    sufficient, but you have to have pristine floppies; anay little glitch
    will cause the installation to fail at that point (but if you have a
    second machine you can then create a new floppy and continue on without
    starting over from scratch).

    It's been a while, but you'll need 6 or 10 floppies or so; I think
    you'll need a "root.bin", a "rescue.bin", a "linux", rawrite2.exe to
    write the images to floppy from DOS, and a bevy of "base" floppies.
    Again, the manual mentioned above is the best place to start, and then
    feel free to ask questions for clarification. 

    -- 
Kent
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