Quick Start

If the target machine can boot a CD then you will be able to begin the in 

stallation by putting the CD in the drive and re booting the machine. If you

don't have that luxury, boot the machine in DOS, either from a  DOS rescue 

floppy or from the hard disk. As a last resort you may need to build a boot

disk and a drivers disk on another DOS machine to get the installation started.

These methods are covered in detail in the docs/install.en.txt file previously

described. What follows next is a simplified, step by step, procedure that will

result in the installation of a Standard Debian GNU/Linux system.

  If the machine will not boot the CD, use one of the alternative methods

provided to boot the rescue disk.

  Set color or monochrome at the opening screen, read the intro, and

proceed to the Main Menu, then choose Next to configure your keyboard.

  Partition and/or install a swap partition and, at minimum, a root par 

tition. These will be created and mounted at your direction by the

installation software when the file system is created. Repeated execu 

tion of this step will create whatever other partitions are necessary for

the installation.

  Install the Operating System Kernel and Modules from the CD, the hard

disk, or floppies, depending on which procedure is being followed.

  After the Modules have been copied into the target partition they can

be installed for use during the remainder of the installation.

  Configuring the Network is provided next, so that the base system can be

obtained from a remote site if the machine has an Ethernet card installed.

This can be a many step configuration process, or, for CD installs to a

stand alone machine, simply a matter of choosing the machine's name.

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