Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!
Pollywog wrote:
>
> 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).
Hmmm, I got my discs from cheapbytes and they boot fine. In fact all of
my cheapbytes discs boot okay. Actually that's a bit misleading since I
only have three sets ;)
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