Re: Fwd: Asking about installation Debian Linux

On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 02:42:19AM +0200, ??!? Jansen wrote:
Hi dear Mr/Mrs,

Several things I forgot to tell that in newest laptop doesn't have floopy
disk drive anymore and I have no idea about "image" that said during the
installation. I just downloaded the DVD files for installation from
debian.org

Would you mind to tell me with more details what are the commands to detect
my DVD-RW such as modprobe, dmesg and other commands that are related to
installation for detecting hardware (VGA cards, sound cards, ethernet cards,
etc)

first of all I say thank you very much. I appreciate your helps.


Hi Eric,

I'm on dialup; it would take me a year to download a DVD so I don't know
what's on it. However, the CD has the installation manual so I'm
assuming that the DVD does as well. In case it didn't, go to
http://www.debian.org/ and click on Getting Debian, which takes
you to:
http://www.debian.org/distrib/

Read that page then click on installation manual and download the
correct one. Then read the whole thing.

You'll find that there are several ways to do an install:
boot the CD/DVD
boot a floppy
boot a USB stick
boot from a spare partition on a spare hard drive
boot from a local network

The instructions of all of these options are in the manual.

Since you have the DVD, you can use that for packages but you need to
set up a means of booting so that you can get them.

Doug.


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