[olug] Tom's Root Boot Disk and installing from a cd

Eric Penne epenne at olug.org
Mon Apr 21 18:44:20 UTC 2003


He can't boot from CD for under $61.

Somebody help me out here.

2 disks are needed:

Root and Rescue. (I think).

>From there you can get the rest of the data from the CD.  The disks are
needed for the initial boot up and start of installation then the rest of
the stuff is pulled from network/CD.

Eric

> I actually recommend the boot cds these days that way you have full
> support for all network cards and it is faster and more reliable...also
> available from debian's website...
>
> Nate
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
> Brandon Lederer
> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 12:20 PM
> To: Omaha Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: [olug] Tom's Root Boot Disk and installing from a cd
>
> You need to make debian boot floppies.  Then during the install process,
> it  lets you choose whether you want to do a CD install or a Net
> install.  I  recomend the net install.  I believe the boot floppies are
> availiable online
>
> at debians website.
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