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13. The real installation process

Insert the resc1440.bin floppy on target drive. Reboot your target box.

     Welcome to Debian GNU/Linux 2.x!
     ...

Read the text The prompt is :

     boot:

Press <ENTER>

     Loading root.bin...........
     loading linux...
     ....

A new screen:

     Next: Select Color or Monochrome display

Choose yours with the arrow up/down keys and press <ENTER>

     Next: Continue with the installation

press <ENTER>

     Software in the Public Interest 
             presents
      *** Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 ***
     ...

Read the text Press <ENTER> (You see <Continue> on the screen)

     Next: Configure the Keyboard

press <ENTER> Select your country and press <ENTER>

     Next : Partition a Hard Disk

Press <ENTER>

     Select Disk Drive
     /dev/hda

If you have several disks choose the good one (where you want to install Linux) and Press <ENTER>

You are now using the program cfdisk. Using cfdisk is safe until you decide to [Write] the partition on disk. Leaving cfdisk with [Quit] is safe.

We are going to make just two new primary partitions, a Swap one and a big Linux one. If you want to do more partitions, leave some free space or extended partitions, you can. But read the documentation about Partitioning in the Installation-HOWTO.

If you previously ran the FIPS program, you see the hda1 partition (DOSFAT16). Switch to the next free partition with the up/down arrow keys.

Select [New] with the right/left arrow keys and press <ENTER>

Select [Primary] and press <ENTER>

Enter the size of your swap partition. Twice the ram is usual if you have less than 128 mega bytes of ram. If you have 2 giga bytes of ram, it's because you don't want to swap. In that case, no swap partition is needed.

Select [Beginning] and press <ENTER>

Select [Type] and press <ENTER> Type 82 (Linux Swap) and press <ENTER>

Switch to the next free partition with the up/down arrow keys Select [New] and press <ENTER>

Select [Primary] and press <ENTER>

Enter the size in MB (You can leave the default) and press <ENTER> Its type is already Linux. If not, change to Linux (83) with [Type]

The partition table is defined now. Verify everything looks good. If you're not sure, read the documentation with [Help]. If doubts are still there, select [Quit] and leave the installation process. Go for a walk and restart from the beginning of this section.

I assume your are confident now.

Select [Write]

     Are you sure you want to write the partition table to disk?

Type yes and press <ENTER>

Select [Quit] and press <ENTER>

     Next: Initialize and Activate a Swap Partition

Press <ENTER>

     Please select the partition to initialize as a swap device

Select /dev/hda2 (normally already selected) Press <ENTER>

     Scan for Bad Blocks?

select <YES> and press <ENTER>

     Are you Sure?

select <YES> and press <ENTER>

     Initializing swap partition
     ...

     Next: Initialize a Linux Partition

Press <ENTER>

     Select Partition Please select the to initialize as a Linux "ext2"
     file-system.

Select /dev/hda3 (normals already selected) and press <ENTER>

     Scan for Bad Blocks?

Select <YES> and press <ENTER>

     Are you Sure?

Select <YES> and press <ENTER>

A new page full of numbers. You can take a rest because it takes some time (especially with big hard disk).

     Next: Mount a Previously-Initialized Partition

Press <ENTER>

     Please select the partition to mount

Select /dev/hda3 and press <ENTER>

     Mount the /dev/hda3 device as the Root FileSystem?

Select <Yes< and press <ENTER>

     Next: Install Operating System Kernel and Modules

Press <ENTER>

     Please select the medium you will use to install the system

Select /dev/fd0 and press <ENTER>

     Please place the Rescue Floppy in the first floppy drive

The floppy is already there.
Select <Continue> and press <ENTER>

     Installing the Rescue Floppy ...
     Please place the Drivers Floppy in the first floppy drive

Eject the Rescue Floppy and insert the Drivers Floppy, the one I you labelled drv1440.bin (you did it, didn't you?).
Select <Continue> and press <ENTER>

     Installing the Drivers  Floppy ...

A new screen:

     Next: Configure Device Driver Modules

Press <ENTER>

     Select Category

Read the text.

     Please select the category of modules

Select net and press <ENTER>
Select plip.

     Module plip

Select "Install the module in the kernel" and press <ENTER>
No parameters are needed.
Select <Ok> and press <ENTER>

     Installation succeeded
     Please press ENTER when you are ready to continue.

Press <ENTER>

Select Exit (Finished with these modules) and press <ENTER>
Then you see the same kind of screen again.
Select Exit (Finished with these modules) and press <ENTER>

     Next: Configure the Network

Choose a name, you can use a different name than debian or target.
Press <ENTER>

     Is your system connect to a network? 

Select <No> and press <ENTER>

STOP STOP STOP. You see now:

     Next: Install the base system

Now we need a shell.

Press Alt F2 and <ENTER> You are in a root shell.


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