Re: Wanna be a Debian user...
I think some thing wrong with time stamp,...
Anyway:
> installation started and then driver disks? base disks? Can I not go
> directly to getting things off the network after booting in with the
> rescue and root disks?
Install woody using potato boot disks
ide-pci kernel on ide boot disk enables pci network cards.
1. Get 3 potato disk set of IDE boot/root(/driver) disks
2. Boot with FD
3. Fdisk/fsck/mount swap, root, tmp, var, home, usr (no 2.0 support)
4. Install OS from network. No need for driver disk(s)
5. Configure driver (No action option)
6. Install base system from network (base2_2.tgz)
7. Configure base system
8. Install lilo to /target and keep current multiboot mbr
9. Reboot system (Lazy not to create FD)
10. MD5 yes, shadow yes, setup also user account
11. Edit source by hand (setup 2 entries, change "stable" to "testing")
12. Install advanced (dselect)
13. Select minimum set (exclude emacs, nvi, tex, telnet, talk(d),...)
14. Include mc, vim, ... (for convienience)
15. Install (download all...)
16. All configuration questions = y (replace current)
17. exim: select 2 for machine behind FW, 1 for internet machine. (XXX)
18. Never erase downloaded file, end smoothly. Wow!
19. Check by "Select" console-* and lilo are from potato. Heck, it works.
20. I see complain about "DESTROY" method. Annoying but testing.
21. Login to root, run dselect --expert, good
22. Reboot. missing char-major-10-135 ? (rtc) but fine
23. Compiled newer kernel or install standard kernel-image. No more rtc issue.
Good luck.
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