[SLUG] Installing Debian

[Jamie Adams]

On 2003.02.24 17:56 Al Girling wrote:
> All I want is the name of the file to copy to make the bootable floppy
> as I did with Mandrake.  With the Mandrake install it was cdrom.img
> and used;
> 
> dd if=/mnt/cdrom/images/cdrom.img of=/dev/fd0
> 
> to create the bootable floppy, but I can find nothing like this on the
> Debian discs.
> 
> Can anybody point me in the right direction please?
> 
> Al

Hi Al, I have never done this before, im just going from what it says 
on the website.

It says that you have to use TWO boot floppies, the images of which are 
on the first cdrom under the 'install' directory. The image names are 
'root.bin' and 'rescue.bin'. You write them to the disk the same way 
you did with Mandrake.

According to the instructions, you first boot from the rescue disk, 
then it should ask for the root disk. Then, fingers crossed, you should 
be able to point it to the cdrom for the rest of the install.

The documentation seemed to make this information incredibly hard to 
find :)

For you info, I found these instructions at:

http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/i386/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-boot-from-floppies 
and
http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html#s-create-floppy

> 
> So is this why Debian is regarded as a pain in the arse to install? ;)
> 

Exactly :)

Jamie
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