Debian installation by newbie

[Shashank Bhide]

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



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[Antony Gelberg]

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 [url]www.debian.org[/url].

Antony


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[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:31:38AM -0500, Shashank Bhide wrote:

> 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?

Have you read [url]http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual?[/url] Have
a look there first (in particular, chapter 4 tells you what files you
need) and then come back if you have any questions.

Cheers,

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[Paul Johnson]

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On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:31:38AM -0500, Shashank Bhide wrote:

> Could you tell me how to install Debian ?

RTFM.
[url]http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual[/url]

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[Shashank Bhide]

I have decided to install Potato over the internet. There are 7 binary
files in compact viz. rescue.bin , driver1/2/3/4 .bin and root.bin.
Which floppy goes in first?
Please advise,
Shashank


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> > Could you tell me how to install Debian ?

>
>RTFM.
>[url]http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual[/url]
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Shashank Bhide
Oklahoma State University
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[Antony Gelberg]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Shashank Bhide" <shashank@bmb-fs1.biochem.okstate.edu>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: Debian installation by newbie

> I have decided to install Potato over the internet. There are 7 binary
> files in compact viz. rescue.bin , driver1/2/3/4 .bin and root.bin.
> Which floppy goes in first?
> Please advise,
> Shashank

Apparently you couldn't be bothered to RTFM, as Paul advised.
[url]http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-boot-fro[/url]
m-floppies

I'm not sure why you'd want to install Potato over Woody.

A


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[Shashank Bhide]

Hi,
I made the required floppy disks....rescue/root/drivers etc.; However,
when I boot using the rescue disk, the screen reads something like this.
Unkown keyword in syslinux.cfg. (several times),
Then,
Loading linux........
and then it just reboots.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Shashank

At 03:11 PM 7/31/2003 +0100, you wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Shashank Bhide" <shashank@bmb-fs1.biochem.okstate.edu>
>To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
>Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 3:03 PM
>Subject: Re: Debian installation by newbie
>
>

> > I have decided to install Potato over the internet. There are 7 binary
> > files in compact viz. rescue.bin , driver1/2/3/4 .bin and root.bin.
> > Which floppy goes in first?
> > Please advise,
> > Shashank

>
>Apparently you couldn't be bothered to RTFM, as Paul advised.
>[url]http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-boot-fro[/url]
>m-floppies
>
>I'm not sure why you'd want to install Potato over Woody.
>
>A
>
>
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[Kent West]

Shashank Bhide wrote:

> Hi,
> I made the required floppy disks....rescue/root/drivers etc.;
> However, when I boot using the rescue disk, the screen reads something
> like this.
> Unkown keyword in syslinux.cfg. (several times),
> Then,
> Loading linux........
> and then it just reboots.
> Any thoughts?
> Thanks,
> Shashank

Hopefully you got the right disks. For i386, go to
[url]http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html#s-downloading-files[/url]
and then scroll down to Section 4.2.3. In most cases, you probably want:
|.../current/images-1.44/idepci/rescue.bin
<http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/idepci/rescue.bin>
as your rescue disk, and
||.../current/images-1.44/root.bin
<http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/root.bin>|
as your root disk.

If you create the floppies from DOS/Win, you'll need to use
"rawrite2.exe" to write these images to your floppies. If from *nix, you
use the "dd" command.

Assuming you've done this, and you're getting the error above, I'd
recreate teh rescue floppy using another floppy. If the floppy isn't
absolutely perfect, you'll run into problems.

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