| Bill Jonas on Wed, 9 Jan 2002 23:30:19 +0100 |
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On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 07:04:28PM -0500, Mike Pflugfelder wrote: > What's the best way to get Debian? In my opinion, the best way would be to grab the five or six floppy images (for i386) and install from the network. The floppy images are a rescue (boot) disk, root disk, and driver (modules) disks. Boot from the rescue disk, insert the root disk when it asks you, then follow the prompts. Be prepared to just sit there and hit the enter key a lot. :) It will ask you for the rescue disk again, to copy the kernel to the hard disk. Then it will ask for the driver disks. After you configure the network, you can install the base system over the network. Then the system will reboot and finish up the installation, ask you a few configuration questions, give you a chance to select software, and download the software you select. The official install guide is available at <http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install.en.html>. I'd add a couple of suggestions: if you make an ext2 filesystem on one of your partitions through the Debian installer, beware the icky default answer to the "Retain kernel 2.0 compatibility with this filesystem?" question. Also, I'd suggest that after the reboot, you select the "Simple" method (tasksel) for choosing software, as opposed to "Advanced" (I never really got the hang of dselect since apt is so wonderful). Just my $0.02. -- Bill Jonas * bill@billjonas.com * http://www.billjonas.com/ Developer/SysAdmin for hire! See http://www.billjonas.com/resume.html Attachment:
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