Index of /debian-archive/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-m68k/current
The Debian Installation System
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Quick Orientation
The Debian Installation system can be found at the following location
on any Debian archive:
<debian>/dists/potato/main/disks-m68k/current/
The word `<debian>' may indicate an FTP area, Web distribution area,
or Official Debian CD-ROM. All the files required for installation
can be found under this directory.
Full information on how to install Debian can be found in the
documentation located under the `doc' subdirectory. Documentation
is available in several formats and languages. Bookmark and read
<URL:http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/> for errata, security
alerts, and other updated information.
Even though the Debian Installation System is also called the
`boot-floppies', it is possible to use the system to install without
the use of floppies at all. For instance, you may be able to install
Debian from bootable CD-ROM, from the network, or from another
operating system. The name `boot-floppies' is something of a
historical artifact. See the documentation for complete information.
** Layout Of The Installation Files
The general organization of files in this directory is the following.
doc/
The Debian GNU/Linux Installation Manual, the Beginner's Guide for
`dselect', and the Release Notes may be found here in several
computer readable and printable formats. Please, Read The Fine
Manual (RTFM) before you begin!
<subarch>/
Installation files for a subdivision of the m68k architecture;
you will need to look under here to find your boot, root, and
drivers disks. This architecture has the following <subarch>'s:
amiga, atari, mac, mvme16x, bvme6000
<subarch>/images-<size>/
Disk images of size <size>. Choose the size that will fit on the
media you intend to bootstrap the installation software from, and
follow the instructions below under "Writing Image Files to
Floppies".
** Specific Files of Interest
Using the descriptions above, you need to select the directory
containing the set of files which is appropriate to the installation
you are doing. You will need all of the following `.bin' images,
unless marked otherwise.
.../rescue.bin
Rescue disk image, containing the kernel and a boot loader.
.../root.bin
Root disk image, containing the root file system.
.../driver-#.bin
Device driver disk images, containing kernel modules you can
load for hardware for which there is not a driver built into the
kernel. For instance, you can use this to install a driver for
your network adapter; once you have installed that driver, you
can install the rest of the system over the network. Other
modules include PPP, parallel support, etc.
.../base-#.bin
The base Debian distribution (base2_2.tgz), split into disk images.
If you intend to install from the network, NFS, a mounted
partition, or a CD-ROM, you will not need the `base-#.bin'
images. (This is good news for the majority of us.) These are
for floppy-only installs, or people installing the base system
so that they can get PPP started and the rest of their system
installed via modem.
base2_2.tgz
The Debian base system in a compressed tar archive, used for the
network, NFS, mounted file system, and CD-ROM installation
methods. This contains a complete minimalist Debian GNU/Linux
installation, as well as everything required to begin installing
everything else you want.
base-contents.txt
List of packages in the base distribution, and their version
numbers.
** Writing Image Files to Floppies
You can write the *.bin disk images to floppies with dd. Replace
`<file>' with the name of the image file in the following command:
dd of=/dev/fd0 if=<file> bs=1024
If you are naturally suspicious, you can make sure the image was
successfully written:
cmp /dev/fd0 <file>
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