Re: from `zip' to sid via network - A general outline needed

[Russell <rjshaw@iprimus.com.au>]

Harry Putnam wrote:
> 
> Hopefully I will already have accumulated enough knowledge and skill
> to do this with minimum help:
> 
> Summary: Beginning with no Debian OS at all, and over the network,
> get a minimal install, and finally a full blown installation of `Sid'...

Don't know what sid is, but i went to:
  http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-appendix#s-file-descs

and did something like:

get rawrite:
  http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/dosutils/rawrite2.exe

download, rawrite onto floppies, and boot pc:
.../current/images-1.44/bf2.4/rescue.bin
.../current/images-1.44/bf2.4/root.bin
.../current/images-1.44/bf2.4/driver-1.bin 
.../current/images-1.44/bf2.4/driver-2.bin 
.../current/images-1.44/bf2.4/driver-3.bin 
.../current/images-1.44/bf2.4/driver-4.bin

download .../base-images-current/basedebs.tar , burn onto a CD,
and read into the linux pc.

The process should get dial-out working, so you can install
packages from the net using dselect.

Instructions are at http://www.debian.org/distrib/floppyinst

I had a second PC with windows, so i could do downloading etc
while i was getting the debian PC loaded.