Re: May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system?
Customing d-i is so hard. Many things confused me on the documents.
Cannot I just start with debootstrap?
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> wrote:
> 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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