Re: Problem CD-rom
Gabrie van Zanten <gabrievz@cuci.nl> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I bought Debian 1.3.1 CD-version a few days ago. I have 2 computers:
> Pentium2 with CD player and Win98 / WinNT 5.0 on it and a 486 no CD rom /
> Win95 on it. What I did was copying the whole CD to the harddisk of the 486
> using Win95. Unfortunately thats when the links got lost and Linux now
> can't recognize them as links.
Well, as the win95 file system doesn't (really; the shortcut stuff
they do is not quite it) support the concept of links, this isn't
surprising.
> Is there a way to copy the files from the cd to the 486 and still keeping
> those links ? I can install a base setup so maybe using telnet, ftp in
> combination with tar or something ?
(I should preface this by saying that a good portion of this is from
memory)
Yes; I'll assume that you've gotten your disk partitioned the way you
want it (or at least, that you have the Win95/DOS partitions as you
want them), and that you plan to keep some Win95 stuff on the machine.
Create a dos directory called c:\linux, then create a subdir
c:\linux\boot and copy all the files in the boot subdir. of the CD
into that. Then, copy the file base1_3.tgz in the
bo/disks-i386/1997-05-30/ subdirectory of the CD into your c:\linux
directory. (replace 1997-05-30 by whatever date you have)
You can then begin the installation process by getting out of win95
into DOS ("Restart in DOS Mode"), and doing
cd c:\linux\boot
boot
This will in fact boot up linux. When asked where to install the base
system from, tell the program that it's on your hard drive's DOS
partition, and point the install program to the linux subdirectory.
Once the base system is installed, the rest of the install can be done
by ftp. (Hopefully you can set your NT box up as an ftp server
serving out the CDROM)
> I know taking the CD out of the first and installing it in the other is an
> other solution, but I'm not to keen on that because of the accessibility of
> the computer.
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