Re: Debian box building - advice
Brian Walker <bfwalker@net-yan.com> writes:
> When it comes to the part where I fire up the new computer for the
> first time, IIUC, the motherboard BIOS will send the usual messages,
> then stop in dismay. The next step is to format the hard disk. In the
> absence of a CD of the installation, how should I proceed? I
> downloaded byld-1_0_3.tgz, which gives a mini-distribution on one
> floppy (I suppose I could use tomsrtbt as well?) - will that suffice
> enough to
>
> 1. format the disk
> 2. allow me to enable a working net connection to download the
> necessary installation files?
If you're downloading floppies, you can download the Debian (woody)
installer on floppies, too; it looks like you can get three floppies
and do a net install from there. See
http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst for details.
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