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Re: BE MORE SIMPLE!!!!



Judith Bush wrote:

>
> My experience yesterday helps me sympathize with the original
> poster. My personal installation last year went beautifully as i ran
> from a bootable cd. On the other hand, I run debian at work, where i'm
> developing a kiosk system. I've a handful of thin clients -- NONE WITH
> CD ROM DRIVES -- set up by a vendor. I'd forgotten their password. The
> boot/rescue disks that they included didn't work. I decided i wanted
> to make rescue disks (one one of the systems I've had going for a
> while). I can remember with slackware system had the boot/root disks
> quite findable with clear instructions on how to build them from both
> the DOS & linux OS. I could not find anything like that for Debian,
> although i did find the DOS tools directory.
>
> So, maybe where the initial boot up stuff is could be pulled out, or
> at least a top level symbolic link so that one doesn't have to dig...
>
> Or maybe *i* missed something, too.....

The "Installation Manual for Intel x86" has the listing of the base floppy images, as
well as links to them. Alternatively, they're under
"dists/[un]stable/main/disks-i386/current".


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