Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!
On 09-Jun-99 Craig McPherson wrote:
> 5. Don't get frustrated! For me, figuring out which files I had to
> download to get a base system up & running was much harder than
> the installation itself! :) (well, except for rescuing my partition table
> from the brink of oblivion, that was kinda nerve-wracking)
> REMEMBER: install.txt is your friend! Read it, read it again, save it,
> print it out, pray to it for good luck, etc.
>
> Here's the addy of the file on one of the FTP sites:
> ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/disks-
> i386/current/install.txt
>
> And the directory containing the files that you'll need to download in
> order to boot into Linux for the first time:
> ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/current/
Is there a place where I can get a bootable CD to install from so that I don't
need the base floppies? CheapBytes disks seem to have problems in this regard
(some versions).
--
Andrew
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