https://wiki.cs.earlham.edu/index.php?title=Installing_Debian_on_Athena&feed=atom&action=history Installing Debian on Athena - Revision history 2024-03-28T11:00:04Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.32.1 https://wiki.cs.earlham.edu/index.php?title=Installing_Debian_on_Athena&diff=5301&oldid=prev Skylar at 15:05, 19 February 2005 2005-02-19T15:05:05Z <p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div># Download the rescue floppies from [ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/installer-i386/current/images ftp.us.debian.org].<br /> # Download the first Debian CD image.<br /> # Write boot.img and cd-drivers.img to floppy.<br /> # Write the first Debian CD image to CD.<br /> # Boot of boot.img, and load cd-drivers.img when prompted. Have the first CD image in the CD drive so that it can start booting off that when it's ready.<br /> # Select whatever language you want. English would probably be appreciated.<br /> # Select a QWERTY keyboard.<br /> # Partition the hard drive. Give 64MB for swap (set to type 82) and the rest to / (set to type 83).<br /> # Let the installer initialize both filesystems. It's your call as to whether to check for bad blocks (it's slow).<br /> # Don't configure any device drivers.<br /> # Install the kernel and all the packages you want off CD.<br /> # Make the system bootable, with the MBR on /dev/hda.<br /> # Reboot.</div> Skylar