On Sat, 12/21/13, Alireza Bahrami <a_bahramii@yahoo.com> wrote:
Subject: Installing Debian 7.3.0
To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Date: Saturday, December 21, 2013, 12:29 AM
Hi,
I'm
an Iranian electronic engineer focused on industrial
automation projects. After some years of work
experience I've come to the conclusion that I should
learn linux for doing my projects in a more efficent
way. Unfortunately I don't know any thing about it
and I'm completely new. The first step of course is
installing it. Here I don't have access to any Debian OS
distributor to buy the CDs from, so I downloaded debian-7.3.0-i386-CD-1.iso sized
648MB and copied it on a CD. According to
Debian website it's enough for installing Debian on
a system. There is an old Dell Latitude laptop with
specs as below which I chose to for this purpose:
Mobile Pentium4: 1.8GHz
CPU
Speed: 1.8GHz
Level
2 Cache: 512KB
System Memory: 256MB
Video
Memory: 32MB
Hard
Drive: 40GB
Its
current OS is windows. Then I chose CD ROM drive as the
first boot system on the laptop and inserted the CD and
restarted the PC. It tried to run the CD, but Linux
didn't come up and after few seconds windows booted up.
First
I thought it was due to a bios setup, so I tried the CD with
a desktop pc. Again I had the same problem.
Is there any one who could Kindly give me some
directives to overcome this problem.
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You cannot just copy the iso to CD as a data file. You need to burn the iso as an image for it to be bootable. I have no idea how to do that with Windows apps. With those specs you probably want a minimal desktop environment. I suggest avoiding Gnome and KDE as they are resource hogs.