Re: Debian install on blank HD

[John Galt]

write the disk1_4's to floppy, make a rescue disk and a drivers disk, and
try to install from floppy and apt-get needed packages from ftp.debian.org
is what I'd do in your situation.  YMMV

On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Mike Glass wrote:

 Hi. I'd like to install Debian 2.0 on the hard drive of my 386DX-40, which 
has been wiped clean. I can't boot from the CD-Rom, and am having some
major problems getting it to work. Any suggestions?
 
 -Mike
 

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Debian install on blank HD

[Mike Glass]

Hi. I'd like to install Debian 2.0 on the hard drive of 
my 386DX-40, which has been wiped clean. I can't boot from the CD-Rom, and am 
having some major problems getting it to work. Any suggestions?

-Mike

Re: Debian install on blank HD

[ktb]

 Mike Glass wrote:
 
 Hi. I'd like to install Debian 2.0 on the hard drive of my 386DX-40,
 which has been wiped clean. I can't boot from the CD-Rom, and am
 having some major problems getting it to work. Any suggestions?
 
 -Mike

I've only done cdrom installations so far but have you checked out the
Debian installation documentation?  It has instructions on how to
install with floppies.

 http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/

or The debian User's Guide at,

http://www.linuxpress.com/001002.htm

hth,
kent

Re: Debian install on blank HD

[Kent West]

Mike Glass wrote:
Hi. I'd like to install
Debian 2.0 on the hard drive of my 386DX-40, which has been wiped clean.
I can't boot from the CD-Rom, and am having some major problems getting
it to work. Any suggestions?-Mike

You can either:
1)Boot from a DOS floppy that has the CD drivers so you
can access the CD-ROM, then run "install.bat".
2) Create Debian install floppies from the CD; again you'll need access
to [a,the] CDROM drive. If you have access to another computer with a CD-ROM,
you can use it to create the boot floppies. If you don't have another PC,
you'll need to boot your 386 with a floppy that has the CD-ROM drivers
on it; in such a case I'd got with option 1 instead of trying to create
the install floppies.