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Hello.
I have been using Mandrake for some time and I am
wishing to switch to Debian. I decided to try downloading and burning the
CD Images depite the fact it was a waste of cd's. I went to http://cdimage.debian.org/ and
clicked on "I want to install Debian GNU/Linux on one computer". Then I
clicked on "The computer I want to install Debian on has a free Internet
connection (I don't have to pay for downloading large amounts of data)" because
I have a cable connection. Then it told be I dont need to download the CD
images, all I need to do is "simply" install from a floppy amd then the "system can connect directly to a Debian FTP
mirror"! Well GREAT this is what I did when I installed my Mandrake
system. WRONG! I downloaded the /dists/stable/main/disks-i386/ directory. Good I
have it now, now what? What image do I write to a disk what do I need to
do? I have looked many places and I found one or two places that INFERRED
that I need to write the "rescue" disk and only one place told me to write the
"root" and "driver" disks. Well I tryed to boot from the rescue disk and
it won't boot. Rawrite had finihed writing the disk so I don't know what
to do. I was told that Debian was a bit harder to install than Mandrake
but I didn't expect it to be this hard. If you think I sould just stick to
my current distro then please tell me, but I would really like to use
Debian.
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