Re: installing

[Frank Zimmermann <F.Zimmermann@bham.ac.uk>]

 ivo ivo wrote:

One posting should be enough. Please send in plain test only.

> I bought a set of Debian 2.2r3. There are 3 source cds, 3 binary alpha
> cds and 3 binary i386 cds.
> I want to install Debian into DEC Personal Workstation 600a, I've upgrade
> the bios and now I'm using SRM console.
> I want to ask how to install Debian into my workstastion? I've read your
> site about installing Debian for alpha, but I still can't understand 
> how to
> make bootdisk and what is the purpose of source cd, binary alpha cd, 
> binary
> i386 cd??

binary alpha --> binaries for the Alpha architecture
binary i386 --> binaries for i386 compatible PCs
source CD --> the sources

> I also want to try to boot by CD-ROM, please tell me the command 
> should I write in SRM console.

Don't know how to boot from CD on an Alpha on a PC just set the boot 
order in the BIOS that it looks for a bootable CD first.



Frank