Pollywog wrote: > > On 09-Jun-99 Craig McPherson wrote: > > 5. Don't get frustrated! For me, figuring out which files I had to > > download to get a base system up & running was much harder than > > the installation itself! :) (well, except for rescuing my partition table > > from the brink of oblivion, that was kinda nerve-wracking) > > REMEMBER: install.txt is your friend! Read it, read it again, save it, > > print it out, pray to it for good luck, etc. > > > > Here's the addy of the file on one of the FTP sites: > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/disks- > > i386/current/install.txt > > > > And the directory containing the files that you'll need to download in > > order to boot into Linux for the first time: > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/current/ > > Is there a place where I can get a bootable CD to install from so that I don't > need the base floppies? CheapBytes disks seem to have problems in this regard > (some versions).
Hmmm, I got my discs from cheapbytes and they boot fine. In fact all of my cheapbytes discs boot okay. Actually that's a bit misleading since I only have three sets ;) -- __ _ Mark Wagnon Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ http://www.debian.org