Re: Debian Sid clean installation problem ?

From: Kent West (westk_at_acu.edu)
Date: 11/30/04

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    Aleksic Predrag wrote:

    > Hello,
    >
    > I have try to install Debian Sid from 15 cd`s i have buy somewhere on
    > the net . When i boot from cd`s after couple of steps (language,
    > keyboard map ...etc) i got to the end point "ash shell" which is quite
    > wierd . Can somebody help me to finish installation , i have read
    > similar threads and people proposition was to upgrade it from knopix
    > or woody , i dont have any other distros or fast internet connection,
    > just this 15 cd`s . Please point me to some tutorials , howtos or give
    > me some advice and answers here .
    >

    I had this problem about two years ago when I tried an unofficial Debian
    Sid installer CD (all Sid CDs are "unofficial"); later I found out that
    the installer on that CD set was broken. It sounds like you've gotten
    hold of a very old set of Sid CDs.

    If you have a slow Internet connection, you can either buy a more recent
    set of Sid CDs, or you can do a netinstall. I'd still rather do the net
    install over a slow connection than shop around and wait for a new set
    of CDs that work, but that might not be practical if you have metered
    access.

    If you have a fast Internet connection (which you don't), I'd definitely
    recommend the netinstall.

    Download the 100MB (or so) .iso file from
    http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ and burn it to CD; it'll be a Sarge
    installer, but once the base is installed you can change your
    sources.list file to get Sid instead of Sarge, and then finish the rest
    of the install from the network.

    Alternatively, you can use the CDs you have, but you'll have to do some
    manual labor, including partitioning the drive with [c]fdisk, formatting
    the partitions with mkfs, copying the kernel over, setting up a boot
    loader, copying other files, creating/editing configuration files, etc
    etc etc. Trust me, if you're not already a semi-guru in Linux, you do
    NOT want to go this route. 

    -- 
Kent West
westk@acu.edu
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