Re: [LUG] Debian

[Richard Brown <rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Grant, Matt and James and anybody else that offered assistance.

I finally cracked it. I had a boot floppy for FreeBSD. So I booted that 
up, loaded it up and then downloaded the drivers for a network install. 
I then loaded the floppys in order to arrange a network install. Debian 
detected my card straight away and promptly loaded a base kernel. It is 
currently loading an x-window and various bits of software!

I'll tell you in the morning how everything else has gone!

Rich
www.littlebigfoot.org.uk
"How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of the messenger bringing 
good news." Isaiah 52 v 7 (The Message)

On 6 Dec 2004, at 10:42, Grant Sewell wrote:

> On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 08:22:05 +0000
> Kelly Jones <kellyjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > you have downloaded the network installation iso which is normally 
> > used
> > to boot from directly, it installs a base system and then you select 
> > the
> > packages you require which are then downloaded via http or ftp.
>
> That's the idea.  Once the system is booted and "Debian base" is 
> installed, then it can pull the rest down from the 'net.
> The problem is that the machine in question won't boot from a CD so 
> install floppies had to be made.  This has been done.
> However, the problem *now* is how to burn an ISO image to a CD 
> successfully from MacOSX.
>
> Grant.
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