Re: [TCLUG:16728] installing Debian

["Andrew S. Zbikowski" <zibby@ringworld.org>]

The fastest way is to install from a DOS partition. Therwise make all the
boot floppies (it's fun...really) or get the base via network share.

First off, what you need is at:

ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current

If you're going to install from a DOS partition:
Get base2_2.tgz, drivers.tgz, install.bat, linux, and loadlin.exe from the
dosutils directory. Shut off you computer and do a clean boot to dos.
(Safe Mode Command Prompt Only, I only suggest this because my NIC
wouldn't install under linux after running windows. It was odd.)

cd to where ever you downloaded the stuf and run install.bat. Keep in mind
that you will most likely have to manually mount your DOS partition after
the installer starts.

Floppy install: make sure you have lots of good floppies.
ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/
Get every .bin. get rawrite2 from the ../dosutils directory. run rawrite2
from a dos prompt. Make all disks. Have fun.

For the network share you just need the rescue, root, and driver disks and
a NFS share with the same files as the DOS partition method. Good luck.

|> Andrew S. Zbikowski | I find your lack of pants disturbing.
|> http://www.ringworld.org | "Only two things are infinite, 
|> the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about 
|> the former. "  - Albert Einstein 


On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Timothy Wilson wrote:

> Hey everybody,
> 
> I'd like to install Debian on a system I've got here at school. Since I've
> got high-speed Internet, I figured that I would just do an ftp install.
> 
> Some time ago, someone suggested a method for installing Debian that
> involved setting up a very simple Debian base system (Bootable Bus. Card
> perhaps?) and then doing an apt-get upgrade immediately to all of the most
> recent software.
> 
> Could someone suggest a simple step-by-step process that I can try? I'm
> feeling very brave today. :-)
> 
> -Tim
> 
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