On Friday 12 May 2006 19:35, Dov Oxenberg wrote: > Hello, > Please pardon me if I appear amateurish but I am new to Linux (long time > Windows user) and am trying to get Debian installed and running. Today I > tried using the suggested netinst method but for some reason it is not > working for me. I downloaded the ISO file, and extracted the file with > WinImage then burned the extracted files to a CD. When I boot with the CD > in the drive nothing happens and the system just boots to Windows. That'll give you something that you can install from if you use a boot floppy disk. There should be a boot floppy image someplace (I've not installed from floppies since I first installed this machine in 1997) that you can use a program like rawrite.exe to write it to a floppy disk to boot from that and install from CDROM. > I even tried burning the ISO file itself to CD and booting with that but > still no joy. Did it even fit? > What am I missing here?I did notice after extracting the files > contained in the ISO image the .bin files are in subdirectories...do I need > to move these to the root of the CD I wish to boot from? No. .bin is probably some form of disk image in this case. > I also am attempting to use the .jigdo method....but don't completely > understand what I need to do once I have all six files. You need the jigdo program to get the actual data. Jigdo and bittorrent work somewhat similarly from a user perspective. But since you have the .iso already, you don't need to do this; jigdo is for fetching images. You'll need to tell your CD burning software to burn an image to CD. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): baloo@ursine.ca Jabber: Because it's time to move forward http://ursine.ca/Ursine:Jabber
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