Gerardo wrote:
Hi, my friends.
I´m a new user to Debian. I have been traing to install several times
your "vanilla" flavor of debian in to my cumputer.
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.
You need to leave the second partition unpartitioned. It'll get
partitioned during the Debian installation. By installing it from DOS,
which doesn't know about Linux-style partitions, you've left nothing for
Debian to install on. (You can leave the partition for now, and delete
it from Debian's installer's cfdisk partitioning tool, but in the
future, just leave the space unpartitioned.)
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.
If I remember correctly, it should be "install.bat", not "install.exe"
I have already downloaded the files as follows:
D:\Debian\vanilla\base2_2.tgz
D:\Debian\vanilla\drivers.tgz
D:\Debian\vanilla\install.exe
See above. If this is not a batch file, but is indeed an actual .EXE
file, then either something is wrong, or the Debian install has changed
since I last tried it.
D:\Debian\vanilla\linux.txt (i think this is the file not found)
This is probably the correct file, with an incorrect name. Some browsers
for some reason add a ".txt" to this file. Just rename the file to
"linux" and see if that doesn't get you further down the road.
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
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.
If you have a fast internet connection, you may find it easier to
download the appropriate Debian image and burn it onto a CD, and then
boot from the CD.
By the way if you have any documentation on programming (basic
programming) on LINUX, I would really apreciate it.
*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,
Atila
