Re: Help loading Debian

[peter colton <dotdebsarge@yahoo.co.uk>]

On Saturday 02 July 2005 21:24, Jim Kern wrote:
> This is my second attempt in a year to get Debian on my machine.  Why is it
> so dificult.  I have downloaded the ISO image of the net install and burned
> it to a CD.  Is this CD supposed to be bootable?  Anyway when I insert the
> CD in an i386 based machine it looks at the CD and returns not boot record
> found.  I have tried to look at your site to find a simple proceedure to
> get this on my machine.  I almost seems as though you want it to be hard so
> that people buy the disks.  I hope not but I feel I am helping you if I am
> honest about it.  Anyway I hope you can point me in the right direction.
>
> Jim

		hello jim

       Are you burning the cd image as a .iso file ? not a data file. 

             all the best

                  peter colton

          ps will knoppix boot from the cdrom drive if so you should be able 
to install debian sarge from a install cd .iso image