New debian Installation help

[pcorbett]

Before you slag me off and tell me to read the NHFs please hear me out.

I have read the NHFs and debians installation docs.
I have installed RH7 before today but had so many probs getting X to work I decided to scrap it and install another distro.
I was going to get Mandrake but I like the idea of the apt-get of debian.

RH7 and Mandrake have CD ISOs to burn to CD.
Debian doesn't seem to (or am I not looking in the right places?).

From what I can understand from the installation docs is that you install a very small and very basic system with a few files and then install the rest of it with apt-get.

Have I missunderstood this or is this the correct way?

TIA http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

[X_Entity]

There are ISO files out there but they are well hidden. You can follow the debian preferred route of getting the basics and just apt-getting what you need but its not my preference. I will post a link here shortly to let you know where I got my ISO from.

[X_Entity]

I found one but its not the one I used. Hey nevermind it should be ok.
www.linuxiso.org/debian.html (http://www.linuxiso.org/debian.html)

all 3 disks are available for download from there. chances are you'll only want the first one and maybe the second but probably not.
hope this helps

[pcorbett]

Much appreciated X_Entity
Thanx

[pcorbett]

This is a good site but does not support file resume. Which is essential on files of these sizes.

[FoBoT]

i did a non-cd install of debian today

loaded base with floppies, then used ftp/apt to bring in the rest

took 17 floppies and about 4-5 hours (we are on some T-? whatever so the apt part didn't take long) in between trying to look busy at work

when it comes to installs i am still quite the newbie, this was my first non bootable cd install, it was kinda fun http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

[This message has been edited by FoBoT (edited 04 January 2001).]

[Evil Jeff]

You can do a pure floppy/ftp install by getting the rescue (boot) floppy imaged, root filesystem image, and the four driver image disk images in the current/disks directory. That should be all you ever need for a good install. Plus it insures that you have the most up to date system (for potato).

Evil Jeff
www.hellincorporated.com (http://www.hellincorporated.com)

[ColdPack]

Debian, itself, does have a page for burning the images.
Basically, it goes through a few questions to see what exactly you're looking for.
Then points you to a whole slew of mirrors where you can get the iso.
Here's that link:
http://cdimage.debian.org/


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[FoBoT]

Originally posted by Evil Jeff:
That should be all you ever need for a good install.

in my case, i had to make the 11 base floppies also, because of firewall/proxy problems, i couldn't hit the ftp server. no biggy, didn't take that much longer and i got a big box of worthless floppies here anyway

once base was installed, i was able to hit the ftp with apt and volia, it was http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/cool.gif

[pipe]

The prefered way is to install the base from the base2_2.tgz file rather than use all of those floppies. Just place the file on another partition (it can be fat32) and the installer does a good job, with your help, finding it.

[mka]

Well, Stormix's Hail is Debian as I have been told. It looks really neat so I ordered it so I could get user and installation documentation.

You can get an ISO from:
http://www.stormix.com/products/download/index_html


I, too, was intrigued by the whole apt thing!

SIERRA HOTEL!

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