The procedure for creating the boot CD rom was originally developed using both a Windows machine and a Linux machine. I have found and tested Windows versions of the Linux commands, so it could be done with just Windows. I have not seen how to build a boot floppy on Windows or XP, so a Windows 98 machine may come in handy.
If Windows 98 is not available, there is an appropriate boot image file available in the bootcdrom. In my case the choice was Partition Magic. The drive letter assignments in the generated system are as follows: A: - The contents of the floppy boot image. As an aside, if you want to actually want to boot from CD to windows GUI not just a command prompt , there is another option.
Packages that should work on the whole 3. Development kit. This is if you want to roll your own floppyfw version, maybe make new packages or add kernel patches or just learn. This is the same as the ordinary 1. This size was needed to get everything into one floppy. First, it attempts a hardware media sense. If the media sense fails, the program uses the size of the image file as a clue, assuming the smallest diskette size that is sufficient to accept the whole of the image.
In case this guess is incorrect, or the media sense is inaccurate, a flag can be used to force a particular diskette size. As you initially install Debian, there are several steps that you shall undergo, in order: booting the installation system initial system configuration installing the base system booting the newly installed base system installing the rest of the system Each step may have multiple methods.
Note that different platforms will have different methods available to it; this document only describes the methods available for Intel x Booting the Debian installation system, the first step, can be accomplished with the following media: the Rescue Floppy a bootable CD-ROM a boot loader running in another operating system These different choices are described in Choosing Initial Boot Media, Section 5.
The first boot is sometimes the hardest, depending on your hardware. It is described in it's own section, Booting the Installation System, Chapter 6. Once you've booted into Linux, the dbootstrap program will launch and guide you through the second step, the initial system configuration. The final step is the installation of the remainder of the Debian system. This would include the applications and documents that you actually use on your computer, such as the X Window System, editors, shells, and development environments.
At this point, you'll be using the standard Debian package management tools, such as dselect or apt-get. Note that the media you use for one step and the media used for another step do not need to be the same. That is, you can boot from the Rescue Floppy, install the base system from NFS, and then install the remainder of the system from the Internet. If you're downloading the system from the archive, you'll generally boot and install the base system from floppies, installing the complete Debian system from the Internet.
Below you will find a description of the different installation methods, and a description of files which might be required for installation. Which files you use, and what steps you have to take to prepare your installation media, will vary with the method that you select to install Debian.
First, choose the media to use to boot the installation system. Next, choose the method you will use to install the base system. As discussed above, these decisions can be made independently. To boot the installation system, you have the following choices: floppies, bootable CD-ROM, or a non-Linux boot loader.
Booting from floppies is supported for most platforms. Floppy booting is described in Booting from Floppies, Section 5. CD-ROM booting is one of the easiest ways to install. If you're unlucky and the kernel on the CD-ROM doesn't work for you, you'll have to fall back to another technique. Booting from an existing operating system is often a convenient option; for some systems it is the only supported method of installation.
This method is described in Installing from a Hard Disk, Section 5. The base system can be installed in the following ways: from floppies Installing Base from Floppies, Section 5.
You should choose whatever method matches the media you have, and whatever is the most convenient. This section contains an annotated list of files you will find in the disks-i directory. You may not need to download these at all; it all depends on the booting and base system installation media you have chosen. Most files are floppy disk images; that is, a single file which can be written to a disk to create the necessary floppy disk.
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