On Mon 15 Apr 2013 at 13:50:49 +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: > I've a very old PC with an old Debian installed. Recently I found the hard > disk has some bad sectors, sometime the file system will be mounted as read > only.
You imply the machine is still functioning and the OS is bootable, so d-i can be started up from this disk. > I bought a new hard disk and downloaded Debian testing version, then > I found the CD-ROM is broken, it can not boot from the CD-ROM. The old PC > can not boot from USB disk either. How to install the new Debian on the > new hard disk? Please see Sections 4.4 and 5.1.4 of the Manual. You will probably want the hd-media images. Note that your Debian testing ISO can be put on a USB stick and is capable of being found and installed to the new disk. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130415093213.GM30093@desktop