> <sect>Decide Your Installation Type > <p> > Decide what type of machine you are creating. This will determine > disk space requirements and affect your partitioning scheme. > If you are not installing from CDs this also can make downloading > easier. E.g. X-section in archive is fairly large, but can be > skipped on many machines not used as personal workstations.
I would like to add this section; however, it's basically useless unless I can provide actual total and /usr partition sizes when using the base profile. I.e., I don't want to ask them to plan but then not provide the user with the data to plan with. > You should also decide how you are going to make various > parts of installation material available to your machine. This is already discussed in 5.2 "Choosing Your Installation Media"; that probably wasn't there when you wrote your mods. > It can be helpful to collect a list of your PC setup: interrupts > IO ports, memory areas and DMA channels used by various cards. > This is always a good thin to have, but might be especially > handy when installing new OS. Not really sure why this is necessary; you can get this info from w/in Linux more than without it. > There should be somewhere a summary of where first stages (boot-floppies > and base) can reside and how they can be booted. Section 5 has the > info, but the summary should be written. 5.1 Introduction (to the Chapter Methods for Installing Debian) > Expanded memory is older specification from the time when MS You mean IBM? > thought that not many would need more than 640K of memory. > It is based on bank switching and is slow and incompatible > with 32 bit linear addressing Linux uses. > <aanote> > This is what I seem to remember from days long past, wonder if it is > true. Well, I don't think we need to add this .. it already says don't use expanded memory. > I had a problem in Debian 1.3 with Intel P150. Installation boot > hung at the end of kernel decompression unless I disabled cache. > Probably something to do with image size, since boot disks with > installed kernels booted normally. Woah, a lot of people have that problem! Which cache settings did you change? Just the stuff mentioned in the document already? > Probably should explain some of the following: > - primary partitiona, extended partitions, logical partitions > MBR, partition table > - booting off 2nd etc. HD > - partition types & W98 (FAT16, FAT32, VFAT) Ugh! Probably should. Stubbed out a new section, <sect>Other Gotchas in x86 Again, thanks for so many useful suggesstions. Remember I only mention here the changes you made that I took issue with. The great majority of your material was integrated. -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
