On 09-Jun-99 Craig McPherson wrote: > 5. Don't get frustrated! For me, figuring out which files I had to > download to get a base system up & running was much harder than > the installation itself! :) (well, except for rescuing my partition table > from the brink of oblivion, that was kinda nerve-wracking) > REMEMBER: install.txt is your friend! Read it, read it again, save it, > print it out, pray to it for good luck, etc. > > Here's the addy of the file on one of the FTP sites: > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/disks- > i386/current/install.txt > > And the directory containing the files that you'll need to download in > order to boot into Linux for the first time: > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/current/
Is there a place where I can get a bootable CD to install from so that I don't need the base floppies? CheapBytes disks seem to have problems in this regard (some versions). -- Andrew
