Re: Question not addressed in FAQ.
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 03:34:37AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: Hi Lynn, could you post your /etc/apt/sources.list here hoping you will soon be using Sarge and maybe you can try to document your fun path from woody to ssarge on the debian wiki (http://wiki.debian.org)! cheers, even better ... your fun part from loadlin - potato - woody - sarge :) - Alexander -- GPG messages preferred.| .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Alexander Sack | : :' : The universal [EMAIL PROTECTED]| `. `' Operating System http://www.asoftsite.org/ | `-http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Kent West Lynn Kilroy wrote: Are you guys like cleaning up the easy way of donig net installs now or something? And is it safe to assume that all Debian Dists have the same basic file sets? In other words, for every file that was mentioned in the prior e-mail, is there file that would be reachable by simply replacing Potato with Sarge? Not entirely sure what you're asking. Concerning loadlin, I believe Sarge doesn't work with it, because Sarge uses initrd kernels by default I think, and loadlin can't handle that. Once you have a base install of Potato, you can change your /etc/apt/sources.list file to point to Sarge (or stable, testing, sid, unstable, EXCEPT for the security line, which needs to be left at stable) and then upgrade the box with: aptitude update aptitude dist-upgrade (If Potato doesn't have aptitude, substitute apt-get, then install aptitude and use it in the future - just my recommendation - not essential.) -- Kent Can I avoid a lot of problems with Sarge by putting the CD Image on a hard drive and booting it from there? Is it even possible to use a CD Image from a Hard Drive to install Debian? The ftp site for potato has a habit of playing Peekaboo!, in that it's there for a few minutes then it vanishes. Are there two ftp.us.debian.org's, and if so, am I getting the one with debian-archives intermittently? If this is the case, how can I get the sight with debian-archives more consistently, to finish installing potato, or will sarge install over potato if I point to sarge? I will try to have sarge try to install in the place of the rest of potato, but I don't know how well this will work. It seems to me a wonder I found potato in the first place! :-) Love Friendhip Blessed Be! Lynn Erika Kilroy _ Is your PC infected? Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfee® Security. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question not addressed in FAQ.
From: Lynn Kilroy From: Kent West Lynn Kilroy wrote: Are you guys like cleaning up the easy way of donig net installs now or something? And is it safe to assume that all Debian Dists have the same basic file sets? In other words, for every file that was mentioned in the prior e-mail, is there file that would be reachable by simply replacing Potato with Sarge? Not entirely sure what you're asking. Concerning loadlin, I believe Sarge doesn't work with it, because Sarge uses initrd kernels by default I think, and loadlin can't handle that. Once you have a base install of Potato, you can change your /etc/apt/sources.list file to point to Sarge (or stable, testing, sid, unstable, EXCEPT for the security line, which needs to be left at stable) and then upgrade the box with: aptitude update aptitude dist-upgrade (If Potato doesn't have aptitude, substitute apt-get, then install aptitude and use it in the future - just my recommendation - not essential.) -- Kent Can I avoid a lot of problems with Sarge by putting the CD Image on a hard drive and booting it from there? Is it even possible to use a CD Image from a Hard Drive to install Debian? The ftp site for potato has a habit of playing Peekaboo!, in that it's there for a few minutes then it vanishes. Are there two ftp.us.debian.org's, and if so, am I getting the one with debian-archives intermittently? If this is the case, how can I get the sight with debian-archives more consistently, to finish installing potato, or will sarge install over potato if I point to sarge? I will try to have sarge try to install in the place of the rest of potato, but I don't know how well this will work. It seems to me a wonder I found potato in the first place! :-) Love Friendhip Blessed Be! Lynn Erika Kilroy Okay. The potato finished installing after pointing apt-get to the Sarge Distro. Which seems kinda' odd, but I hope makes perfect sense for linux. I did not try to use aptitude - maybe I should - but anyway, apt-get dist-upgrade responded by saying there were no updates available. I had to point it at /debian/dists/sarge to get it to finish installing at all, so could I now have a sarge box instead of a potato box? If so, where to from here? Love Friendship Blessed Be! Lynn Erika Kilroy _ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question not addressed in FAQ.
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 06:37:58AM +, Lynn Kilroy wrote: From: Lynn Kilroy From: Kent West Lynn Kilroy wrote: Are you guys like cleaning up the easy way of donig net installs now or something? And is it safe to assume that all Debian Dists have the same basic file sets? In other words, for every file that was mentioned in the prior e-mail, is there file that would be reachable by simply replacing Potato with Sarge? Not entirely sure what you're asking. Concerning loadlin, I believe Sarge doesn't work with it, because Sarge uses initrd kernels by default I think, and loadlin can't handle that. Once you have a base install of Potato, you can change your /etc/apt/sources.list file to point to Sarge (or stable, testing, sid, unstable, EXCEPT for the security line, which needs to be left at stable) and then upgrade the box with: aptitude update aptitude dist-upgrade (If Potato doesn't have aptitude, substitute apt-get, then install aptitude and use it in the future - just my recommendation - not essential.) -- Kent Can I avoid a lot of problems with Sarge by putting the CD Image on a hard drive and booting it from there? Is it even possible to use a CD Image from a Hard Drive to install Debian? The ftp site for potato has a habit of playing Peekaboo!, in that it's there for a few minutes then it vanishes. Are there two ftp.us.debian.org's, and if so, am I getting the one with debian-archives intermittently? If this is the case, how can I get the sight with debian-archives more consistently, to finish installing potato, or will sarge install over potato if I point to sarge? I will try to have sarge try to install in the place of the rest of potato, but I don't know how well this will work. It seems to me a wonder I found potato in the first place! :-) Love Friendhip Blessed Be! Lynn Erika Kilroy Okay. The potato finished installing after pointing apt-get to the Sarge Distro. Which seems kinda' odd, but I hope makes perfect sense for linux. I did not try to use aptitude - maybe I should - but anyway, apt-get dist-upgrade responded by saying there were no updates available. I had to point it at /debian/dists/sarge to get it to finish installing at all, so could I now have a sarge box instead of a potato box? If so, where to from here? Love Friendship Blessed Be! Lynn Erika Kilroy Hi Lynn, could you post your /etc/apt/sources.list here hoping you will soon be using Sarge and maybe you can try to document your fun path from woody to ssarge on the debian wiki (http://wiki.debian.org)! cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System| go to counter.li.org and | | `-http://www.debian.org/ |be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org | signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Question not addressed in FAQ.
From: Raquel Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 15:32:22 +
Lynn Kilroy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What files from the mirror site will I need if I want to install
Debian without making or purchasing some kind of removeable
media?
Also, what will the LoadLin Command Line look like to get Debian
started on a network install?
Love Friendship Blessed Be!
Lynn Erika Kilroy
Check out: http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst
I have done several network installs using the 4 floppy images. It
works very easily.
--
Raquel
Ummm ... No Floppy Drive, and, although we have a working drive {What a
Relic!}, we have no diskettes for it.
Before anyone mentions burning CD's {or perhaps after} I do not have a CD
Burner.
I have a perfectly good Win98SE Partition that boots great to DOS. I have
LoadLin. Now all I need are the correct files to work with LoadLin to get
it to start.
I have a file called linux, apparently the kernel itself. I have a file,
initrd, which appears to be the initial ramdisk, and there's another file,
called default, which appears to be a settings file for getting started.
When I loadlin linux initrd=initrd default, it says that the file is not in
the correct format and halts.
What files do I need, and where can I get them?
Love Friendship Blessed Be!
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Re: Question not addressed in FAQ.
From: Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 03:32:22PM +, Lynn Kilroy wrote: What files from the mirror site will I need if I want to install Debian without making or purchasing some kind of removeable media? Also, what will the LoadLin Command Line look like to get Debian started on a network install? What version of Debian are you talking about? Not just what version number, but what platform? Does 3.x even support loadlin? I haven't used it in years. -- I am attempting to install Sarge, the stable version. I do not want to attempt to install anything unstable. I'm pretty much a set it and forget kinda' gal. Love Friendship Blessed Be! Lynn Erika Kilroy _ On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com/category.aspx?cid=Retirement -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Question not addressed in FAQ. Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 00:10:19 GMT Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 03:32:22PM +, Lynn Kilroy wrote: What files from the mirror site will I need if I want to install Debian without making or purchasing some kind of removeable media? Also, what will the LoadLin Command Line look like to get Debian started on a network install? What version of Debian are you talking about? Not just what version number, but what platform? Does 3.x even support loadlin? I haven't used it in years. Sorry for the Me too!-ish post, but I too see no reason for loadlin. I've never needed / wanted to use it. netinst is about 107 Mb. If you can't manage that, go the floppy route as suggested, though be careful there; floppies are notoriously unreliable media. Oh! Off Topic: Please note Reply-To is not the list. Back to Topic: I have no CD Burner, so please excuse me for having legacy equipment off a P100 and P233 on a brand new AMD 1.4GHz PC. This system is still being worked on. Oddly enough, we own six hard disk drives, five 200GB drives, and one 160GB Drive. We have no floppy diskettes. We pretty much store all our surplus data on spare hard drives. I mean, with like, six of them, why not? We have no use for a CD Burner. What's 600 MB to a spare 280GB for each of us, not including the dual internal drives we have installed all the time? I'd rather not purchase a CD and wait two weeks to a month, while running the rist that the CD's May Get Stolen. The Floppy Image can be downloaded and the OS installed via a Network. Why can't I just D/L the files off the floppy image, and use them, along with LoadLin, to boot to Linux, then let Linux install them? I have a dual boot already, and there's no reason at all for Linux to share the same 200GB Hard Drive with Win98SE and Win XP Pro. Love Friendship Blessed Be! Lynn Erika Kilroy _ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question not addressed in FAQ.
Lynn Kilroy wrote: From: Raquel Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 15:32:22 + Lynn Kilroy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What files from the mirror site will I need if I want to install Debian without making or purchasing some kind of removeable media? http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s05.html.en -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question not addressed in FAQ.
Kent West wrote: Lynn Kilroy wrote: From: Raquel Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 15:32:22 + Lynn Kilroy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What files from the mirror site will I need if I want to install Debian without making or purchasing some kind of removeable media? http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s05.html.en Ag! Sorry; that doesn't address booting from loadlin; never mind. I vaguely recall some discussion a year or three ago that loadlin is no longer supported. (But don't trust my memory.) So you'd need to use an older version of Debian, and upgrade from there. That also means you'll need to find an older version of the Installation Manual. It _used_ to be in the manual that I referenced above. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question not addressed in FAQ.
Kent West wrote: Kent West wrote: Lynn Kilroy wrote: What files from the mirror site will I need if I want to install Debian without making or purchasing some kind of removeable media? http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s05.html.en Ag! Sorry; that doesn't address booting from loadlin; never mind. Ah! Here we go. http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/i386/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-install-drive and http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html#s-rescue-images So, _probably_ what you want are: |http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/idepci/rescue.bin | | http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/compact/root.bin| |http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/idepci/root.bin| |http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/idepci/linux ||http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/dosutils/loadlin.exe ||http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/idepci/install.bat This last install.bat file you may need to edit to your particular setup; or you can just manually execute the correct line from that batch file. -- Kent | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question not addressed in FAQ.
From: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Question not addressed in FAQ.
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 08:05:45 -0500
Lynn Kilroy wrote:
From: Raquel Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 15:32:22 +
Lynn Kilroy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What files from the mirror site will I need if I want to install
Debian without making or purchasing some kind of removeable
media?
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s05.html.en
Very helpful. May I remind people that even the best non-destructive
partitioning tools can damage the partition tables such that my maintenance
OS will not boot?
Also, Win XP Pro probably wouldn't like it too much, either.
Finally, there's an almost brand new, 200GB hard drive waiting for Linux.
Partitioning it *now* will take over two hours, as I would want to break it
up nice and neat with FDisk. Anyone unfamiliar with FDisk {probably most
everyone here} will need to note FDisk verifies the drive integrity each
time you try to make a small change on the drive.
Granted, Debian probably has a better utility, and it probably works *much*
faster, but to use it, I rather believe you will need to at least have the
installer loaded.
LoadLin would be great for that. :-)
Speaking of LoadLin, now the Kernel reports less than 4MB RAM, and halts the
system.
The exact message is: Less than 4MB of memory. --System Halted.
This is strange, because the computer has 1GB RAM installed.
Love Friendship Blessed Be!
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Re: Question not addressed in FAQ.
From: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Kent West wrote: Kent West wrote: Lynn Kilroy wrote: What files from the mirror site will I need if I want to install Debian without making or purchasing some kind of removeable media? http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s05.html.en Ag! Sorry; that doesn't address booting from loadlin; never mind. Ah! Here we go. http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/i386/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-install-drive and http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html#s-rescue-images So, _probably_ what you want are: |http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/idepci/rescue.bin | | http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/compact/root.bin| |http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/idepci/root.bin| |http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/idepci/linux ||http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/dosutils/loadlin.exe ||http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/idepci/install.bat This last install.bat file you may need to edit to your particular setup; or you can just manually execute the correct line from that batch file. -- Kent Oooh ... now *this* looks promising! Thanks! Love Friendship Blessed Be! Lynn Erika Kilroy _ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question not addressed in FAQ.
From: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Question not addressed in FAQ.
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 08:20:57 -0500
Kent West wrote:
Kent West wrote:
Lynn Kilroy wrote:
What files from the mirror site will I need if I want to install
Debian without making or purchasing some kind of removeable
media?
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s05.html.en
Ag! Sorry; that doesn't address booting from loadlin; never mind.
Ah! Here we go.
http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/i386/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-install-drive
and
http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html#s-rescue-images
So, _probably_ what you want are:
|http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/idepci/rescue.bin
|
|
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/compact/root.bin|
|http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/idepci/root.bin|
|http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/idepci/linux
||http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/dosutils/loadlin.exe
||http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/idepci/install.bat
This last install.bat file you may need to edit to your particular setup;
or you can just manually execute the correct line from that batch file.
--
Kent
Sorry to double post, but for these specific files, the address begins with
ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian-archive/dists/potato/main
because Sarge supersedes Potato.
I looked through Sarge, and could not find analogous files, so I will use
Potato, instead.
Besides, I have a particular affection for Potato. :-)
Perhaps if this works, someone can walk this newbie through an upgrade to
Sarge. Of course, they would probably be twisting my ear and waggling their
finger at my nose as they did so. {Blushes}
Love Friendship Blessed Be!
Lynn Erika Kilroy
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Re: Question not addressed in FAQ.
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 09:55:29AM +, Lynn Kilroy wrote: We have no use for a CD Burner. What's 600 MB to a spare 280GB for each of A CD Burner is so cheap nowadays that you can buy it and throw it away. ... and you would have a use: Burning CDs to install debian without wasting your time with archaic loadlin stuff. If you still insist to not buy a burner, ask a fried to burn the netinstall CD for you. Why go the hard way if there is a simple way. - Alexander -- GPG messages preferred.| .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Alexander Sack | : :' : The universal [EMAIL PROTECTED]| `. `' Operating System http://www.asoftsite.org/ | `-http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Lynn, do you have USB flash drive? If your box will boot off that, I believe you can install that way. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be. -Bruce Tognazzini -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Question not addressed in FAQ. Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 10:14:44 -0400 Lynn, do you have USB flash drive? If your box will boot off that, I believe you can install that way. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] No USB Flash drive, I'm sorry. The Potato Version had a really nice setup, though, and it installed nicely on my second drive, I think. Only thing is, I did not put LiLio on to the first drive, as I was afraid it would cause problems that I don't have backups for at the moment to fix easily. Not that it would be a big problem, but it took all day to migrate what I have on to the current four partition drive. :-) I am hoping to setup LoadLin to be able to start the Linux on my second hard drive. This will circumvent so many problems and headaches, while at the same time allowing me to have a dedicated linux drive. Or, barring that, I can alway tell BIOS to boot to hdb instead of hda. :-p Then use LiLo to redirect to hda, then go through the Windows partitions. Even better, I can swap a coupla' jumpers, so hdb becomes hda, and hda becomes hdb. Since I just installed potato without knowing much about Linux, perhaps you can give me some recommendations? The Linux Drive has LiLo on it already. :-) Love Friendship Blessed Be! Lynn Erika Kilroy _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Vnished FTP Files? {Was: Question not addressed in FAQ.}
From: Lynn Kilroy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kent West wrote:
Kent West wrote:
Lynn Kilroy wrote:
What files from the mirror site will I need if I want to install
Debian without making or purchasing some kind of removeable
media?
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s05.html.en
Ag! Sorry; that doesn't address booting from loadlin; never mind.
Ah! Here we go.
http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/i386/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-install-drive
and
http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html#s-rescue-images
So, _probably_ what you want are:
|http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/idepci/rescue.bin
|
|
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/compact/root.bin|
|http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/idepci/root.bin|
|http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/idepci/linux
||http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/dosutils/loadlin.exe
||http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/idepci/install.bat
This last install.bat file you may need to edit to your particular
setup; or you can just manually execute the correct line from that batch
file.
--
Kent
Sorry to double post, but for these specific files, the address begins with
ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian-archive/dists/potato/main
because Sarge supersedes Potato.
I looked through Sarge, and could not find analogous files, so I will use
Potato, instead.
Besides, I have a particular affection for Potato. :-)
Perhaps if this works, someone can walk this newbie through an upgrade to
Sarge. Of course, they would probably be twisting my ear and waggling
their finger at my nose as they did so. {Blushes}
Love Friendship Blessed Be!
Lynn Erika Kilroy
Hmmm. I can't seem to get in touch with either of these links, now. I know
the one was good when I did the install, and now I have a half installed
Potato Debian {all right, about five years out of date} on my machine.
I suppose I can look for the equivalant files for Sarge, however. :-)
Love Friendship Blessed Be!
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Re: Question not addressed in FAQ.
From: Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 09:55:29AM +, Lynn Kilroy wrote:
We have no use for a CD Burner. What's 600 MB to a spare 280GB for each
of
A CD Burner is so cheap nowadays that you can buy it and throw it away.
... and you would have a use: Burning CDs to install debian without
wasting your time with archaic loadlin stuff.
If you still insist to not buy a burner, ask a fried to burn the netinstall
CD
for you. Why go the hard way if there is a simple way.
- Alexander
I would argue that, once I had it all together {which wasn't all that hard
once the information came available} it worked great. This was relatively
simple with no messy external media.
It even boots fine, now, except now it's looking for stuff that, for some
odd reason, seems to have vanished in the few hours that it took for me to
figure out how to get this far.
Are you guys like cleaning up the easy way of donig net installs now or
something? And is it safe to assume that all Debian Dists have the same
basic file sets?
In other words, for every file that was mentioned in the prior e-mail, is
there file that would be reachable by simply replacing Potato with
Sarge?
I will find out! {Giggles}
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Lynn Kilroy wrote: Are you guys like cleaning up the easy way of donig net installs now or something? And is it safe to assume that all Debian Dists have the same basic file sets? In other words, for every file that was mentioned in the prior e-mail, is there file that would be reachable by simply replacing Potato with Sarge? Not entirely sure what you're asking. Concerning loadlin, I believe Sarge doesn't work with it, because Sarge uses initrd kernels by default I think, and loadlin can't handle that. Once you have a base install of Potato, you can change your /etc/apt/sources.list file to point to Sarge (or stable, testing, sid, unstable, EXCEPT for the security line, which needs to be left at stable) and then upgrade the box with: aptitude update aptitude dist-upgrade (If Potato doesn't have aptitude, substitute apt-get, then install aptitude and use it in the future - just my recommendation - not essential.) -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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What files from the mirror site will I need if I want to install Debian without making or purchasing some kind of removeable media? Also, what will the LoadLin Command Line look like to get Debian started on a network install? Love Friendship Blessed Be! Lynn Erika Kilroy _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 15:32:22 + Lynn Kilroy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What files from the mirror site will I need if I want to install Debian without making or purchasing some kind of removeable media? Also, what will the LoadLin Command Line look like to get Debian started on a network install? Love Friendship Blessed Be! Lynn Erika Kilroy Check out: http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst I have done several network installs using the 4 floppy images. It works very easily. -- Raquel Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control. --Denis Diderot -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 03:32:22PM +, Lynn Kilroy wrote: What files from the mirror site will I need if I want to install Debian without making or purchasing some kind of removeable media? Also, what will the LoadLin Command Line look like to get Debian started on a network install? What version of Debian are you talking about? Not just what version number, but what platform? Does 3.x even support loadlin? I haven't used it in years. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 03:32:22PM +, Lynn Kilroy wrote: What files from the mirror site will I need if I want to install Debian without making or purchasing some kind of removeable media? Also, what will the LoadLin Command Line look like to get Debian started on a network install? What version of Debian are you talking about? Not just what version number, but what platform? Does 3.x even support loadlin? I haven't used it in years. Sorry for the Me too!-ish post, but I too see no reason for loadlin. I've never needed / wanted to use it. netinst is about 107 Mb. If you can't manage that, go the floppy route as suggested, though be careful there; floppies are notoriously unreliable media. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Linux Counter #80292 - -http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Spammers! http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling/emails.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
