[Cialug] Installing Debian

[Aaron Thompson]

You could try the old-fashioned method using floppies :)

Documented here:
http://www.debian.org/distrib/floppyinst

Sounds like you have an ide/pci system:
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/idepci/

Download the .bin files, dd them to a few sets of floppies (just in
case). Stick in the 'rescue' disk, and reboot.

Good luck.

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On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 10:54 -0600, kendall bailey wrote:
> I run Mandrake 9.1 and would like to try Debian.  I downloaded a recent 
> netinst ISO for sarge, burned and tried to boot it, but no go.  The bios 
> is set to try the CD-ROM, and I've always installed Mandrake by booting 
> this way.  I checked the md5sum of the iso prior to burning.  The CD 
> contents look like this
> 
> debian@  install/    pics/        README.mirrors.html  tools/
> dists/   isolinux/   pool/        README.mirrors.txt
> doc/     md5sum.txt  README.html  README.txt
> 
> I've tried writing the boot.img to a floppy and boot that.  I get a 
> Debian logo and boot: prompt, but when I hit enter, it says the boot 
> failed, with no other info.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong? Should I get the first full CD rather than a 
> netinst CD?
> 
> btw, the machine is an Athlon 1GHz with 256MB RAM, K7T turbo 
> motherboard.  Everything works under MDK9.1.
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> Kendall
> 
> 
> 
> 
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