Hi Hagen Welcome to Debian.
I'm assuming that you're planning on wiping out the disk and starting over once you've created the base system floppies? If so, point your browser at http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/install and look at Chapter 5. The subsections cover just about everything you need including how to create the floppy disks (9) that will install your base system. If you have any problems holler again on this list. If not, take a look at the thread "Moving from RedHat to Debian" currently active on the list. John > I would like to begin downloading Debian Linux but I remain a little > puzzled as to how this procedure really works. I have RedHat 6.1 on an old > P133 (64MB) 1 GB system at home I can play around with. The RedHat install > works fine and we use the same release at work where I am a unix admin for > HPUX & AIX systems. However, for reasons I can't really explain, I would > like to delve deeper into Linux and begin working with current builds - a > yearning likely to yield as much grief as pleasure, but I can't help myself. > With RedHat I have always used the boot floppy and the cdrom. That's > fairly > simple nowadays, but one remains dependent on the prepackaged releases and I > end up with a very generic installation. That's functional enough, but its > boring. I imagine performing installs off the web will require a little more > Linux savvy, which is agreeable enough. So my question is, assuming I start > from the 6.1 platform I have, how would I go about downloading and > converting to the most recent / stable Debian release? By asking that I > don't really expect anyone to lead me through the process step by step and I > have read through at least some of the installation documentation on the web > site. However, in spite of that, I remain unclear where I deposit the > Debian ftp download and how I initiate the installation. Do I create a boot > floppy and point it to a installation directory? Can someone point me to > some documentation that addresses installing from a ftp download? > > Hagen Finley > Longs Drugs > Walnut Creek, CA > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Powered by the Penguin
