Hello, Being prompted for this part and that part, I imagine this is to support using updated copies or a mixed media install.
A rescue disk, aka boot disk aka start disk, includes your boot loader, kernel, kernel mods... It depends, you probably want to use one of the rescue disk(s) on one of the CDs -- likely the first CD, the "vanilla" kernel. If you work through the Installation Guide it may almost make sense http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install.en.html At the prompt what happens when you select from CD and when prompted just push enter? If you identify what the last significant step that you completely successfully I may be able to give more insight... if you are continually prompted for a CD or asked where particular packages are, you probably have bad media, a damaged CD. It has nothing to do with Wine except possibly as infrastructure. There are a number of implimentations that support accessing/writing to a number of filesystems. Of course, because of the nature of the various Windows (TM) filesystems, access/use of those fileystems is pretty cludgy in turns of ownership and permissions associated with the files. Best regards, Lloyd ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 11:26 PM Subject: Installation > I recently downloaded Debian 2.2 r3 and am trying to install. I boot from > cd-rom and when I get to Install Operating System Kernel and Modules it asks > where I want to install from, I say from the cd-rom drive, it tells me to > enter the first cd-rom, so I do, and then I get prompted to enter the rescue > disk. What is that and how do I get it? > > And another thing... > "Linux is capable of reading and writing information in the Windows VFAT file > system format. This means that we can access information on the Windows > partition of the hard drive even when we're running Linux. But to facilitate > this capability, we'll need to initialize the Windows partition. > > So select "mount a previously initialized partition" and create a directory > name where your Windows partition will be accessed. A name like "/win98" > or "/windows" will do just fine." > > How does this work, is it similar to Wine? > > Thank you, > Chase __________________________________________________________ Get your FREE personalized e-mail at http://www.canada.com
