According to roach, > 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.
Or a misburned image. The image is intended to be burned as an image, but a common mistake is to burn a data disk containing the image as a file. > > 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. Yes ... > > 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 That's a good list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
