On Saturday 02 July 2005 22:24, Jim Kern wrote: > This is my second attempt in a year to get Debian on my machine. Why is it > so dificult. I have downloaded the ISO image of the net install and burned > it to a CD. Is this CD supposed to be bootable?
Yes. > Anyway when I insert the > CD in an i386 based machine it looks at the CD and returns not boot record > found. That sounds like a hardware problem to me. > I have tried to look at your site to find a simple proceedure to > get this on my machine. You should have looked on the CD. The instructions should be there. > I almost seems as though you want it to be hard so > that people buy the disks. Debian doesn't sell CD's or DVD's, hence not guilty. > I hope not but I feel I am helping you if I am > honest about it. Anyway I hope you can point me in the right direction. I'm sorry your having problems. Here's a debugging list to get started: 1. Are you downloading the netinstall iso from a reliable site? A lot of mirrors are unfortunately broken. 2. Have you verified the md5sum of the CD? 3. Has the iso image been properly burnt? Check to see if there is a single file or multiple files on the CD. It should be the latter. 4. Is it in fact a CD? Some PC will not boot from a DVD. Stupid, but true. 5. Have you been able to boot any other linux distro with that drive, on that PC? 5. Is it definitely a i386 netinstall iso? If it's the wrong arch. it won't work. If all else fails you can always try http://www.debian.org/distrib/floppyinst -- Robert "roach" Spencer Pietermaritzburg South Africa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
