Chapter 3

Installation

Introduction

There are several ways to begin the installation of Debian. This section will

focus primarily on the CD ROM method. While using one of the other instal 

lation techniques may require different medium the basic process will be the

same for each installation method.

If the CD ROM will not boot in the target machine, take a look at the instal 

lation instructions in:

debian/dists/stable/main/disks i386/install.en.txt

Here you will find instruction on how to construct boot floppies, or install files

on a DOS bootable partition that can be used to boot the installation process

with a DOS command. Once you have an installation kernel booted using one

of these alternative techniques, and the drivers are installed for you CD ROM

drive, you can continue the rest of the installation from the CD ROM.

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