Re: Debian installation by newbie

2003-08-01 Thread Kent West
Shashank Bhide wrote: Hello again, I am actually installing the old-stable version. (Potato). The reason for this is, I want to upgrade it to woody later once I have installed it. This way I would learn more about Debian. I did make a couple of other rescue floppy disks but got the same e

Re: Debian installation by newbie

2003-08-01 Thread Shashank Bhide
Hello again, I am actually installing the old-stable version. (Potato). The reason for this is, I want to upgrade it to woody later once I have installed it. This way I would learn more about Debian. I did make a couple of other rescue floppy disks but got the same error. (I did get the co

Re: Debian installation by newbie

2003-08-01 Thread Kent West
Shashank Bhide wrote: Hi, I made the required floppy disksrescue/root/drivers etc.; However, when I boot using the rescue disk, the screen reads something like this. Unkown keyword in syslinux.cfg. (several times), Then, Loading linux and then it just reboots. Any thoughts? Thank

Re: Debian installation by newbie

2003-08-01 Thread Shashank Bhide
PM 7/31/2003 +0100, you wrote: - Original Message - From: "Shashank Bhide" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 3:03 PM Subject: Re: Debian installation by newbie > I have decided to install Potato over the internet. There are 7

Re: Debian installation by newbie

2003-07-31 Thread Antony Gelberg
- Original Message - From: "Shashank Bhide" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 3:03 PM Subject: Re: Debian installation by newbie > I have decided to install Potato over the internet. There are 7 binary > files in compa

Re: Debian installation by newbie

2003-07-31 Thread Shashank Bhide
I have decided to install Potato over the internet. There are 7 binary files in compact viz. rescue.bin , driver1/2/3/4 .bin and root.bin. Which floppy goes in first? Please advise, Shashank At 02:31 AM 7/31/2003 -0700, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 30, 2003

Re: Debian installation by newbie

2003-07-31 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:31:38AM -0500, Shashank Bhide wrote: >Could you tell me how to install Debian ? RTFM. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin a

Re: Debian installation by newbie

2003-07-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:31:38AM -0500, Shashank Bhide wrote: >Could you tell me how to install Debian ? I got to the archives > section (I want to install Potato and then upgrade to > woody.learning process), but there are a lot of files and I am > confused as to which files I need to us

Re: Debian installation by newbie

2003-07-30 Thread Kent West
Antony Gelberg wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:31:38AM -0500, Shashank Bhide wrote: Hello folks, Could you tell me how to install Debian ? I got to the archives section (I want to install Potato and then upgrade to woody.learning process), but there are a lot of files and I am confuse

Re: Debian installation by newbie

2003-07-30 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:31:38AM -0500, Shashank Bhide wrote: > Hello folks, >Could you tell me how to install Debian ? I got to the archives section > (I want to install Potato and then upgrade to woody.learning process), > but there are a lot of files and I am confused as to which fil

Debian installation by newbie

2003-07-30 Thread Shashank Bhide
Hello folks, Could you tell me how to install Debian ? I got to the archives section (I want to install Potato and then upgrade to woody.learning process), but there are a lot of files and I am confused as to which files I need to use in order to get the OS installed. Do I need to burn CD