CC'd to debian-user for other ideas > Gerardo wrote: <SNIP personal message> > I´m a new user to Debian. I have been traing to install several times your > "vanilla" flavor of debian in to my cumputer.
It's not mine,I'm just another user .:-) > I partitioned my harddisk with MS-DOS "fdisk" command, and no I got one > primary partition of about 1.5GB and another partition of about 1.5GB too, > it seems to me that I wrote the second one as extended. No need to create the second partition with DOS's fdisk.You have to delete it anyway to create the LInux and Linux swap partitions-unless you want them logical partitions. > The problem is I havent been able to install Debian in one of those > partitions, I am running Windows on one partition and want to stick with it > at the same time. > > When I boot my computer with (F8) in to MS-DOS, I call my drive > D:\Debian\vanilla\install.exe, so the installation stops and asks me the > direction of my kernel image. > > I have already downloaded the files as follows: > > D:\Debian\vanilla\base2_2.tgz > D:\Debian\vanilla\drivers.tgz > D:\Debian\vanilla\install.exe > D:\Debian\vanilla\linux.txt (i think this is the file not found) > D:\Debian\vanilla\dosutils\loadlin > D:\Debian\vanilla\images-1.44\driver-1.bin > D:\Debian\vanilla\images-1.44\rescue.bin > D:\Debian\vanilla\images-1.44\root.bin You're missing the file linux which is the kernel.Also the install is AFAIK install.bat .This is a batch file,which you should open with an editor edit in a DOS cosole(MSDOS prompt) and give the full path to the kernel image e.g. loadlin c:\debian\vanilla\linux ........ > My machine is AMD-586, 54MB RAM, 3GB (actually partitioned). I would really > like to install Debian and get to work this system so if you could give any > sugestion, it will be a lot of help. I dont like to be stick with Windows > any more. I suggest you read this: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install It's pretty straight forward. This is what I've read when I started with Linux-Debian was my first Linux install. > By the way if you have any documentation on programming (basic programming) > on LINUX, I would really apreciate it. Sorry. I'm more of a hardware type.I would suggest a search or some books. Try http://www.google.com/linux > *Note: I downloaded the files without going in to any folder of any other > flavor, I asumed that the first files to appear were "vanilla". > > Thanks, > P.S. Please post to the list,they're a lot of helpfull people on the list who may have had the exact same problem as you did and are more cluefull in other problems regardsing install/config of certain packages a.s.o. Direct mail is not recommended unless specifically required.
