On Du, 06 nov 11, 18:20:51, Brian wrote: > > 3. You can now boot Debian - we hope! Still no net access but you have > a working system which can do many things. One operation you want to > carry out is to mount the device which has Windows on it. Like so: > > mount /dev/sdaX /mnt > > You want to do this because you are going to download quite a few > .deb files in Windows, transfer them to the Debian installation > using Debian and install them with dpkg. Have you bought that USB > stick yet?
Why so complicated? Just download the full DVD1 iso and loop-mount it under Debian. I only hope the Windows partition is not NTFS, because the base install does not contain ntfs-3g. One option would be to resize the Windows partition and create a small Fat32 partition for the DVD and firmware. Hope this helps, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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