How download linux install kernal?
I am having difficulty downloading the Debian linux install kernal. I am using Netscape 4.5 under Windows98. I have been able to successfully download the other installaion files: root.bin, base2_0.tgz, drv1440.bin, resc1440.bin, and loadlin.exe. Yet, when I have Netscape download from ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/linux I get a file that to my Windows98 OS, looks like a Netscape file. (When I click on it, it starts up a Netscape window.) Is there a special incantation for downloading this binary file? Any and all help greatly appreciated! Blair
Re: How download linux install kernal?
No special instructions, just Shift+Left button to save it on disk. Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: How download linux install kernal?
Andrew Ivanov wrote: No special instructions, just Shift+Left button to save it on disk. I thank you for your suggestion. Yet when I tried it, I got a file that is 689K long while the file while downloading says it is only 688K long. (Should I be worried?) And it still appears as a Netscape icon that when I click on it brings up Netscape with gobbdy-gook inside. (Which I expect, since this is a binary file.) By the way the reason I am trying to download it to my hard disk is so that I can do an install from disk as described in section 6.2 of the installation instructions. The instructions say I need this file. Blair
Re: How download linux install kernal?
On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Blair Kelly wrote: Andrew Ivanov wrote: No special instructions, just Shift+Left button to save it on disk. I thank you for your suggestion. Yet when I tried it, I got a file that is 689K long while the file while downloading says it is only 688K long. (Should I be worried?) And it still appears as a Netscape icon that Nah; minor differences like that can be attributed to different ways of counting a megabyte and the cluster size of the drive it's stored on, etc. when I click on it brings up Netscape with gobbdy-gook inside. (Which I expect, since this is a binary file.) By the way the reason I am trying to download it to my hard disk is so that I can do an install from disk as described in section 6.2 of the installation instructions. The instructions say I need this file. It sounds like the file is being saved to your hard drive with an .HTM[L] extension. If Win98 is configured to hide known file extensions (which is the default, and which in my opinion is STUPID with a capital STUPID), turn off that option for future use. For now, just rename the file back to its original. Of course, you can't double-click on it in Windows and expect it to do anything; you've got to use rawrite.exe (or a variant like rawrite2.exe) to copy it to a floppy where it will be used during the booting/installation of Linux. Blair -- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] KC5ENO - Amateur Radio: When all else fails. Linux - Finally! A real OS for the Intel PC! Life is an ongoing classroom. - Capt. James T. Kirk, Dreadnought
