Manual Debian Install?

From: Armando Brambilla (dijital_at_shaw.ca)
Date: 08/19/04 

Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 06:05:16 GMT

Hi There,

I've downloaded the first 3 ISO's and started to do the automated install (a
bit slow on my spare PC which is only 233 MHz with like 40 MB of RAM and it
went up fine until the part where it's going to install the kernel and
modules. It indicates it's building a list of directores where the file
"images-1.44/idepci/rescue.bin" is located and it just hangs there. Not sure
if this is just a hardware issue or if I'm doing something wrong, though not
sure. It's basically just pop it in and let 'er rip. I did notice that at
this point if I try and eject the CDROM it will not work, though the old
3-finger salute will reset the system.. and I can still get into and work in
the ash shell from the Alt+F2 combo, but the installer just chokes.

Well anyway, I'm in this to learn the hard way. I don't think aptitude is a
problem and I've bought some excellent reference books (Linux In a Nutshell
is particularly thorough) and would like to have a go at command line. I'm
wondering if anyone knows where I could possibly find a half-decent HOWTO on
manually installing Linux rather than using the packaged installer. Even if
it's a breakdown of the steps I figure it's a good start. Thanks for any
help.

Armando
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