Re: May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system?

[Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com>]

On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 02:31:21 -0400 (EDT), "Magicloud Magiclouds" wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:38:14 -0400 (EDT), "Magicloud Magiclouds" wrote:
>>>
>>> May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system?
>>
>> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual
>>
>>   or
>>
>> http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/installmanual
> 
> I am not quite sure. Is this the document for debian-installer?

Yes, it is.
>
> How if
> I do not want to use a special "install disk"? Or you mean I have to
> make an install disk myself?

There are a number of different installation methods available.  They
are described in the installation instructions.  Use the one that
suits you best.  What I usually do is take the "netboot" mini.iso
image and "burn" it to a CD-R.  Then I boot from the CD.  But there are
other alternatives.  For example, you can make a bootable USB stick,
commonly called a "thumb drive", and boot from it.  There are other
installation methods that allow the installer to be started from a
pre-existing Unix or Linux system, or from a Windows system.  Years
ago, you could also create a bootable floppy disk and boot from a
floppy.  But that installation method is no longer supported.  Etch
is the last release that supported "boot floppy" installation.  In
short, there's no substitute for reading the directions.

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