Brian, all:
First the amount of creative thinking I have read regarding my situation
simply cements for me why the debian community has earned the reputation
it has.
I am floored honestly, and will be starting a "best edition of debian for
dummies book> thread shortly smiles.
Still Brian has the situation here, and I will answer a few more
questions in one place.
The machine on to which I am installing Debian was built for me, not an
off the shelf unit. To insure things like a serial port for the hardware
speech, one almost has to do this these days.
The thing is though, it was built a few years back, as shared I have been
moving towards this project for a few years now.
Honestly? although I have been using computers since 1988, I am far from
a professional. I prefer finding those with the real wisdom, getting
trained in person for what I need, and using that wisdom towards what I
really do for a living.
I do not like the tutorial ting, each human learns uniquely. I got
training
when I started, and have built on that training in my operating system of
choice ever sense.
Finding the in person wisdom on debian has been rather
a task as shared. still...
first indeed the bios getting do not allow for DVD booting whatsoever.
second, I prefer using hardware speech to software, and when it would not
talk, simply skipped the software aspect all together.
The suggestions regarding grub were something I considered but passed on,
far far more than I wished to take on all together, given the operating
system is new to me, and the screen reader is as well, and I thought I
could follow
the steps outlined in the debian accessibility wiki...but they failed.
third, while I have network cards in all of my machines, I am between
dsl providers here, something that may not change for some time, so
best to understand that dialup is the only Internet I have access to, at
all right now.
fourth, unless there is a list? somewhere of what packages are on which
image, I do not want to guess from the installer, which is
why I why
install all I have before picking and choosing the first time out. I
have heard that indeed
past the third image might not be needful, but no clear explanation as to
why. I have read with total firmness though that more than the first
DVD/cd is needful, with getting packages later a time consuming
task..plus an impossible one for me at the moment.
Besides, if there are 6 or 8 DVD images for all of the stable squeeze,
there must be
a reason for them.
Finally, aside from again throwing flowers at the entire lot of you, it
seems the most practical use of my energy is going to be somehow getting
a cd of the stable squeeze install.
In the interim, I will ask about good debian teaching materials.
Karen
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Brian wrote:
On Tue 12 Jun 2012 at 16:52:43 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:01:22 +0100, Brian wrote in message
<20120612100122.GJ30016@desktop>:
The DVD is a USB device. She cannot boot from USB on the machine she
wishes to install Debian to.
..she can. She must put grub on her hard disk, or get e.g. the
http://www.supergrubdisk.org/ on a cd, and then boot into grub.
She cannot boot from USB using bios settings. Is that any more precise? :)
..once in grub, Karen wants to issue:"root (" and then hit the
tab button twice, to get grub's suggestions on what it can boot.
If that fails, take a standard grub meny entry and strip it
"down" upwards from the bottom until the "root (" and try again
from there, grub 2 is more modular than legacy grub, and I don't
remember if I've ever done this "in anger" from grub-2.
I have experimented and it can be very frustrating and eventually lead
nowhere. Not to be recommended to a newcomer to Debian.
..tutorials etc: http://wiki.debian.org/Grub
Some other distro's points of views:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2
http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/grub-2.html
There is nothing here which says "This is how you boot a USB device on a
computer which has no BIOS facility to do so."
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