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.