Debain

[jjjj]

I have the Orielly book Learning Debian. When I read the book about installing it gives me three options. Booting from the cd, which my computer doesnt do. Booting from Win 9x or booting by putting the cd on 2 floppy disks.

I was wondering is there another way. Such as the way I did it for Mandrake. Mandrake came with a boot disk. So all I had to do was put the boot disk in restart then I could install off the cd.

Is there a way to make a boot disk from my Debian cd??? That way I can just restart my computer and install off the disk.

Thanks for any help.

[Pierre Lambion]

You can. When you tell about putting the Cd on 2 floppies, it's just creating boot and root floppies ...

P.

[cotfessi]

if your bios allows you to boot from CDROM drive then you should be able to boot directly to a debian CD.

I switched from mandrake to debian a while ago and I found it easiest to make a few floppies and boot from floppies. Then at different parts of the install the CD is accessed for to install the packages that you want(like X). Check the install guide on debian's site...

I'll be honest and tell you that it took me a while to figure the install out... it's not as nice and user friendly as mandrake, but it does give you the ability to choose exactly want you want to install.

[jjjj]

Thanks.