On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 04:03:50PM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 06:55:00PM +0300, Sergey A. Ovchar wrote: > > > How to mount iso images I know. At current time I'm use RH7.3 ,which > > was installed from iso images. But I don't understand, how can I > > make the bootable floppy (in case with debian) and wat can I do > > further ;-(
If you use IDEPCI floppies with normal DESKTOP PC and NIC, you need only 2 floppies for Debian. Why download packages in iso which you may not use? Debian is very lean. It ain't RH. > I installed Debian from a boot disk. Read the manual for more > information. Yes. Please read http://www.debian.org Especially http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst (network install) http://www.debian.org/distrib/ (general install info) > The install system will pretty soon ask for something like > basedep.tgz. Make sure you either download that file or extract it > from the ISO to a reachable partition on your system before you boot > with the floppy. The installer offers to look for that file on your > partitions (even FAT I believe). Yes FAT, MSDOS, EXT2, ... > Once the base system installation is underway, you can at some point > switch to another login and mount the ISO for the installation of the > rest of the packages. Or install from network :) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ +++++ Osamu Aoki @ Cupertino CA USA See "User's Guide": http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/users-guide/ See "Debian reference": http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ "Debian reference" Project at: http://qref.sf.net I welcome your constructive criticisms and corrections. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
