Re: May I have a document about manually preparing a Debian system?
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 03:14:07 -0400 (EDT), Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> Customing d-i is so hard. Many things confused me on the documents.
> Cannot I just start with debootstrap?
My reply to another one of your posts applies here also:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2010/09/msg02353.html
Why don't you just tell us exactly what you are trying to do?
And please stop top posting!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_posting
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