On 12/21/2013 01:57 AM, Doug wrote:
On 12/21/2013 01:47 AM, Go Linux wrote:
On Sat, 12/21/13, Alireza Bahrami <a_bahra...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Subject: Installing Debian 7.3.0
To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Date: Saturday, December 21, 2013, 12:29 AM
Hi,
I'm
an Iranian electronic engineer focused on industrial
automation projects. After some years of work
experience I've come to the conclusion that I should
learn linux for doing my projects in a more efficent
way. Unfortunately I don't know any thing about it
and I'm completely new. The first step of course is
installing it. Here I don't have access to any Debian OS
distributor to buy the CDs from, so I downloaded
debian-7.3.0-i386-CD-1.iso sized
648MB and copied it on a CD. According to
Debian website it's enough for installing Debian on
a system. There is an old Dell Latitude laptop with
specs as below which I chose to for this purpose:
Mobile Pentium4: 1.8GHz
CPU
Speed: 1.8GHz
Level
2 Cache: 512KB
System Memory: 256MB
Video
Memory: 32MB
Hard
Drive: 40GB
Its
current OS is windows. Then I chose CD ROM drive as the
first boot system on the laptop and inserted the CD and
restarted the PC. It tried to run the CD, but Linux
didn't come up and after few seconds windows booted up.
First
I thought it was due to a bios setup, so I tried the CD with
a desktop pc. Again I had the same problem.
Is there any one who could Kindly give me some
directives to overcome this problem.
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You cannot just copy the iso to CD as a data file. You need to burn
the iso as an image for it to be bootable. I have no idea how to do
that with Windows apps. With those specs you probably want a minimal
desktop environment. I suggest avoiding Gnome and KDE as they are
resource hogs.
To burn an iso image to a cd or dvd in Windows, first download a free
file called CDCC from this place
http://burncdcc.en.softonic.com/
and install it to your Windows machine. It *only* burns iso files, so
you can't screw up!
When you have it installed, just snap on the icon, and point it at
your downloaded iso. Put a blank disk
--in this case, a DVD--into your drive and let 'er rip! (I'm pretty
sure the Debian distro is too big to fit
on a CD.)
--doug
You can probably put more memory into your Dell lap. This will be
important with a large dsitro like debian, or any of the
modern main-stream do-it-all distros. I would guess, without looking at
the manual, you could put 2GB memory into the
machine, but you might have to put two 1GB cards. There is the
possibility that you could put just one 2GB card in.
(I put 4GB into a Dell Inspiron, on two 2GB cards, altho the manual says
it will only take 2GB. This allows me to use up
to 3.3GB or so.)
--doug
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